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Africa North

Islamic State accuses Israel of slaying jihadist leader in Sinai airstrike

2022-05-02

[IsraelTimes] Terror group says Abu Omar al-Ansari

...one of the ISIS local big turbans in Iraq was called Abu Omar al-Ansari. His real name was Muntasir al-Haradani, but he was reported killed in 2015. Another Abu Omar al-Ansari was mentioned in an article in 2006 — he was emir of Jeish al-Taiifa al-Mansoura (Army of the Victorious Sect) in Iraq. So either our man gets around or there are a bunch of Abu Omar al-Ansaris...
killed as Egyptian army launches new campaign in northern part of desert, with Israeli air support

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 organization claimed Thursday the Israeli Air Force helped assassinate a local jihadist group leader in Egypt’s Sinai Desert in April.

In its weekly al-Naba newspaper, Islamic State said Abu Omar al-Ansari, a military leader in the terror group’s so-called Sinai Province, was killed by "Jewish planes" as the Egyptian army launched a new campaign against the group.

The report said Israeli jets and drones have intensified their air support for the Egyptian army in the past month, in its fight against jihadist group members in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, close to the border with 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.

"This greatly limits the ability of the Mujahideen to move and maneuver," a security source was quoted as saying in the Islamic State publication.

It was not clear exactly when or where al-Ansari was killed.

Egypt is battling an Islamic State-led insurgency in the 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 murderous Moslems have carried out scores of attacks, mainly targeting Egyptian security forces and Christians.

On Saturday, suspected Islamic State murderous Moslems blew up a natural gas pipeline in northern Sinai.

In 2018, it was reported that Israeli drones, fighter jets, and helicopter gunships carried out more than 100 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
<del>Arclight</del> airstrike

...KABOOM!...
s against Islamic State-affiliated murderous Moslems over a two-year period in the area, close to Israel’s border.

While security coordination between Jerusalem and Cairo is known to be close, the ties are unpopular in Egypt, despite nearly three decades of official peace. In order to keep the cooperation under wraps, the Israeli aircraft are often unmarked and sometimes use indirect routes in a bid to cover up the origin of the strikes, The New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported at the time.

Israeli and Egyptian officials have refused to confirm or comment on the reports.

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