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| Egyptian security arrested over 19,000 terrorist elements in past 4 years: Interior minister |
| 2018-03-24 |
[AlAhram] In his first interview with the press, Egyptian Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel-Ghafar announced that that from 2014 to 2017 Egyptian security forces tossed in the slammerDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 19,108 terrorist elements with huge quantities of weapons and ammunitions. In the interview with weekly al-Ahram al-Arabi magazine, Abdel-Ghafar also revealed that terrorist attacks notably reduced from 481 in 2014 to only 22 in 2017 in Egypt. He also added that in the previous four years, the Egyptian security forces, in cooperation with other security services both domestic and abroad, managed to conduct preemptive security strikes that enabled them to destroy 992 terrorist hideouts and to confiscate 2322 different weapons as well hundreds of thousands of pieces of munitions. The minister also added that the security forces were able to confiscate 1511 boom belts and bombs. "We cannot depend solely on the security confrontation to terrorism, the responsibility goes to the state's institutions to raise the awareness of the citizens especially the youth to protect them from radicalism," the minister said in the interview. Abdel-Ghafar also stressed that the ministry has not taken any exceptional procedures during the fight against terrorism. "All procedures are done in accordance with the constitution and law as well human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... principles," he asserted. Concerning undocumented immigration, Minister Abdel-Ghafer announced that a new department has been founded to fight human trafficking. He also stated that from 2017 till today, 103 cases of undocumented immigration were foiled in Egypt as well 361 cases of illegal crossing of Egyptian borders, and 4419 non-legal He also added the phenomenon of undocumented migration by sea from Egyptian shores has stopped thanks to a 2016 law that criminalized such activities with penalties ranging from a fine of EGP 200 all the way up to life imprisonment. |
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| #1 Is that why NUTA NATO has to keep training them for Qatar and Saudi Arabia in Lebanon? |
| Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 2018-03-24 15:32 |