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Africa North
Islamic State kills at least 6 Bedouins in Sinai ambush
2021-02-10
[IsraelTimes] Members of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group kill at least six Bedouins in an ambush for their alleged collaboration with the Egyptian military in the country’s restive Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian security officials say.

The ambush took place in the mountainous Maghara area in central Sinai when members of a local IS affiliate established a fake checkpoint and opened fire on two vehicles carrying Bedouins, the officials say. They say a seventh Bedouin is missing following the attack.

Egypt has been battling bandidos turbans in the northern part of Sinai Peninsula for years. Violence and instability there intensified after the 2013 military ouster of Mohammed Morsi, an elected but divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
Islamist president amid nationwide protests against his brief rule. The bandidos turbans carried out numerous attacks, mainly targeting security forces, minority Christians and those they accuse of collaborating with the military and police.
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Sinai Peninsula: 2021-02-04 Egypt conditioning Netanyahu visit on goodwill gesture to Palestinians — report
Sinai Peninsula: 2021-02-02 PA to begin vaccination drive in mid-February
Related:
Maghara: 2020-06-06 ISIS latest al-Naba (#237) includes reports on 2 attacks in Central Sinai Jabel al-Maghara
Maghara: 2018-10-09 Egyptian officials confirm arrest of terrorist Hisham El-Ashmawi in Libya
Maghara: 2017-02-19 Egypt's PM bans motorcycles in North, Central Sinai for 1 year
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  ^Oh, it's not closed yet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-10 21:50  

#2  That was fast, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-10 18:14  

#1  And the Rafah crossing is closed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-02-10 12:03  

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