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| Egypt arming Sinai tribesmen in fight against Islamic State |
| 2018-09-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] Bedouin forces to man checkpoints, accompany military patrols deep inside the peninsula where their local knowledge gives them an advantage In a remote outpost in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Ibrahim Abu-Sefira watches a mountainous skyline of jagged rock, ears tuned to the twilight silence, listening for any signs a fragile peace may be disturbed. An elder from the Bedouin Tayaha tribe, he has seen armies, both Egyptian and Israeli, pass through this vast desert. Now the area is the center of a yearslong, bloody conflict between the Egyptian military and a local affiliate of the Islamic State |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Obama and Hillary's friend, Mo. Morsy, opened Egypt's prisons and the Islamic Jihad and Gamaat took off for the Sinai where they organized support for the Muslim Brotherhood leadership and then the resistance to Sisi. Egyptian military has had one hell of a time rooting them out thanks to the infusion of new Islamist blood through Gaza . It appears that Egypt has finally turned the corner in Sinai if it is now receiving bedouin support. |
| Posted by: Hupusing Claitch6798 2018-09-28 07:52 |