More on the attack reported here yesterday and the day before.
[AlAhram] 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group said Saturday that it had carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia the previous day.
"A cell of soldiers of the caliphate managed to attack an Egyptian police roadblock... with a machine gun," the jihadist group’s Amaq news agency said.
Three Egyptian coppers were killed in the attack, the first of its kind in nearly three years in mainland Egypt, which has largely been spared the deadly insurgency in the nearby Sinai Peninsula.
In the past few years, attacks against Egyptian security forces have been concentrated in the Sinai, where jihadists affiliated with IS operate.
Ismailia is one of the key cities overlooking Egypt’s Suez Canal, a vital waterway between Asia and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...that sees about 10 percent of the world’s maritime trade