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| Egyptian in Red Sea knife attack supported Islamic State |
| 2017-07-31 |
| [REUTERS] An Egyptian man who stabbed three foreign tourists to death and maimed three more earlier this month at a Red Sea resort had tried to join 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , according to a police investigation, two security sources said on Sunday. Officials say Abdel Rahman Shaban Abokorah killed two German women and a Czech woman and maimed three other tourists at the popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada on July 14. He was caught by hotel staff and locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Investigators have recommended he face terrorism charges, the two sources said. Authorities have so far not commented officially on motives for the attack, and no group has grabbed credit for the attack, The two sources confirmed a Facebook page belonging to the attacker contains a series of references to Islamic State, with the Lion of Islam group's flag displayed prominently in his profile. Authorities say the attacker killed the two German women and maimed two more tourists at the Zahabia hotel in Hurghada, then swam to a neighboring beach to attack at least two more people at the Sunny Days El Palacio resort before being caught by staff and arrested. The Czech woman was among the maimed. She died of her injuries last week. It was the first major attack on foreign tourists since a similar assault on the same resort more than a year ago. It came as Egypt struggles to revive tourism, which has suffered from security threats and years of upheaval. |
| Posted by:Fred |