Deadly attacks hit Egypt's Sinai

[Bosonic]

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Source: Aljazeera

At least 35 people have been killed in ongoing attacks on several military checkpoints and police stations in Egypt's northern Sinai, security sources and witnesses have told Al Jazeera.

About 70 fighters, reportedly belonging to an ISIL-affiliated group, simultaneously attacked several targets in the area on Wednesday, the sources said, adding that at least 22 of the fighters were killed and three of their vehicles were destroyed.

Egypt's air force deployed fighter jets to the region to assist the army in the ongoing battle, Al Jazeera learned.

The mortuary in El-Arish received at least 35 bodies, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Egyptian security sources said that at least 11 soldiers were among the dead. Local media reports suggested the death toll of the attacks could be much higher.

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/deaths-attacks-checkpoints-egypt-sinai-150701074350492.html

[Bosonic]

1. Islamic State group claims Sinai attacks on Egypt soldiers

#BREAKING Islamic State group claims Sinai attacks on Egypt soldiers
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/616182294945132544

[ananda]

2. This is a bad business.

It doesn't look like the Egyptian military can handle IS.

[7962]

3. Egypt is about to take off the gloves.

Every time ISIS is faced with COMPETENT opposition they get their ass whipped. The biggest way to defeat their recruitment is to show they can be defeated and destroyed. No mercy. Its all these types understand

[happyslug]

4. This is "Reported" to be ISIS affinalted group

Egypt has been fighting an insurgency in Sinai since before the fall of Mubarak (Wikipedia says it started AFTER the start of the Egypt Revolution then ignores the fact that Mubarak did not fall from power till late in the Revolution). Thus this insurgency started before ISIS was ever founded. Thus it is highly unlikely this is an ISIS operation, my money would be on the existing insurgency (which calmed down under Morsi, but has since increased in intensity).

The Insurgents have connections with the Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas but NOT Saudi Arabia, al Queda and ISIS. The Egyptian press is controlled by the existing Government and they know ISIS is the hot name in the west so it was used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinai_insurgency

[7962]

6. very good point.

[Bosonic]

5. Egypt security forces kill nine 'armed men' in Cairo suburb - security sources

Egypt security forces kill nine 'armed men' in Cairo suburb - security sources

Egyptian security forces stormed an apartment in the western Cairo suburb of '6th of October' and killed nine men whom they said were armed, security sources said.

The sources said authorities had received information the group was planning to carry out an attack. Among those dead was Nasser al-Hafi, a prominent lawyer for the Muslim Brotherhood and a former lawmaker.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/07/01/uk-egypt-security-cairo-idUKKCN0PB53T20150701

[Bosonic]

7. IS attacks in Egypt's Sinai kill 70 soldiers and civilians: officials

IS attacks in Egypt's Sinai kill 70 soldiers and civilians: officials

At least 70 people, mostly Egyptian soldiers but also civilians, were killed in attacks and ongoing clashes with Islamic State group jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, officials said.

The security and health officials said 38 militants were also killed in the violence, during which Egyptian air force F-16 fighter jets pounded IS positions.

https://in.news.yahoo.com/attacks-egypts-sinai-kill-70-154308909.html

[freshwest]

8. Good for the Egyptians, then. ISIS isn't hiding their ambition to take down all governments there.

[ChiefJusticeIV]

10. It's a matter of time

It won't be tomorrow. It won't be a month from now. It probably won't be a year from now. But eventually Sisi is going to get what's coming to him from within. If people had grievances with Mubarak enough to kick him out, you can bet it will happen to Sisi. He's quickly emerging as one of the worst dictators in the region.

[freshwest]

11. OP is about the Daesh. Not the MB. Are you saying they're the same? n/t

[Bosonic]

9. Muslim Brotherhood calls for Egypt 'rebellion'

Muslim Brotherhood calls for Egypt 'rebellion'

The Muslim Brotherhood says its leaders killed in a Cairo apartment were murdered in "in cold blood," calling for a rebellion against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who it calls a "butcher."

"Come out in rebellion and in defense of your country, yourselves and your children," it said in a statement issued in English Wednesday. "Destroy the citadels of his oppression and tyranny and reclaim Egypt once more."

It called the killings "a turning point that will have its own repercussions... el-Sissi is initiating a new phase during which it will not be possible to control the anger of the oppressed sectors who will not accept to be killed in their own houses and in the middle of their families."

It says the men were from a Brotherhood committee that supports the families of the group's detainees and "martyrs," and were "rounded up inside the house and then were murdered in cold blood without any investigations or indictments."

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e77c284bd6ec4b3dbcf1e7b9bcdd084d/latest-militant-attacks-egypts-sinai-kill-30-troops