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Islamic State affiliate in Sinai claims rocket fire on Israel
2017-02-23
[IsraelTimes] The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula took responsibility on Tuesday night for firing two rockets into Israel a day earlier.

The terror group posted photos on Twitter showing jihadists preparing the projectiles for launch.

The two rockets, which struck an open field in southern Israel and did not cause any damage or injuries, were fired shortly after the group accused Israel of killing five of its operatives in an Arclight airstrike Saturday.

In a statement on social media, the group said it had fired two Katyusha rockets at "southern Paleostine," according to the Walla news site.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Monday dismissed the threat posed by the Islamic State terror organization’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula. Liberman said that while IS in Sinai is "annoying" and "hindersome," it does not possess the means to pose a serious threat to Israel’s security.

"If you are talking about Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and Hezbollah, then [IS’s Sinai force] is not even a terror group," he told Army Radio, describing the group’s capabilities as "random [amateurs] who decide to build themselves an army."

"We need to see everything in proportion," he added.

Asked if Israel was behind the Saturday Arclight airstrike in the Sinai, Liberman responded sarcastically.

"Like always, the special forces of Lichtenstein probably took out a few bandidos hard boyz from ISIS in Sinai," he said, using the Arabic name for the Islamic State. "We do not let anything go without a response," he declared.
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