[AlAhram] Egypt's army said on Thursday it has killed a top leader in Sinai-based holy warrior group Ansar Beit El-Maqdis during In an official statement, army front man Tamer El-Refaie said the army's air forces conducted strikes in those governorates, killing 19 faceless myrmidons including one of the group's top leaders.
According to the statement, the leader was the head of the group's Sharia Committee and responsible for interrogations.
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This is not the first time the army has announced the killing of a prominent leader in the group this month. Earlier in April, El-Refai said that group leader Salem Salma El-Hamdeen, known as Abu Anas El-Ansari, had died from injuries sustained in an
According to the army, El-Ansari was one of the group's founders and among its most important leaders in North Sinai, involved in arming and training faceless myrmidons in the area. The holy warrior group's propaganda magazine El-Nabaa mourned the death of the 40-year-old leader through an obituary.
Most of the attacks against security personnel and installations in North Sinai in recent years have been claimed by Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terrorist group in late 2014.