[IsraelTimes] Why Cairo appears to be taking the Islamist threat from the peninsula more seriously than before
It's now a routine. On each of the past four days, the front man of the Egyptian army, Mohammed Samir, has offered glowing reports of the military's achievements in its latest operation in northeast Sinai, which began in the middle of last week.
On Thursday, Samir claimed Egyptian soldiers had succeeded in killing more than 80 terror operatives and arresting almost 200. He reported on the number of vehicles destroyed, and the cycle of violences, tunnels and warehouses used by the bully boyz (most of them members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis |