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Islamic State claims Sinai attack that killed 5 Egyptian troops
2022-05-15
[IsraelTimes] An 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....
affiliate in Egypt on Saturday claims responsibility for an attack that killed at least five troops in the restive part of the Sinai Peninsula.

The bad boy group announces its claim of Wednesday’s attack in a statement carried by its Amaq news agency. The authenticity of the statement cannot be verified but it was released on Telegram, as similar claims have been in the past.

The attack involved a bad boy ambush against a border guard checkpoint west of the Mediterranean city of Rafah, which borders the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

The military said at least five troops, including an officer, were killed in the attack. At least seven faceless myrmidons were also killed, it said.

It was the second jihadist attack in less than a week.

Last Saturday, at least 11 troops were killed, in one of the deadliest attacks on Egyptian security forces in recent years.

Islamic State also claimed that attack, which took place in the town of Qantara in the province of Ismailia, which stretches eastwards from the Suez Canal.

Egypt is battling an insurgency in Sinai that intensified after the military overthrew 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 in 2013. The faceless myrmidons have carried out scores of attacks, mainly targeting security forces and Christians, but the pace has slowed in recent years.
Related:
Sinai: 2022-05-12 Israel says it foiled Hamas attempt to smuggle arms production parts via sea
Sinai: 2022-05-12 Seven terrorists killed; 1 officer and 4 soldiers killed: Egypt’s Armed Forces
Sinai: 2022-05-10 Good Morning
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