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Post by Daniel on Jul 2, 2015 8:08:36 GMT -5
Some 200 dead – Egyptian troops, Islamists, civilians - in major ISIS-Egyptian battle in North Sinai
DEBKAfile Special Report July 1, 2015
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant moved ominously close to Israel’s borders Wednesday, July 1 – not as predicted in the north, but in the south, from the Sinai Peninsula. There, ISIS followed up on its Ramadan terror outrages in France, Tunisia, Kuwait and Kobani, with a massive assault on Egyptian forces and reportedly capturing the northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuwaid close to the Israeli and Gaza Strip borders. Confirmation of this would mean that the MFO facility at Gora is under ISIS siege. It would also mean that the Islamists had captured their first Egyptian town, a victory comparable to seizure of the Iraqi city of Ramadi. In the fierce 10-hour battle for the town, at least 200 Egyptian soldiers, terrorists and civilians were killed.
Not just a terrorist attack, ISIS launched a full-scale military offensive, starting with mortar fire and suicide bombings against five Egyptian military checkpoints.
Using a tactic similar to that employed in the capture of the Iraqi town of Ramadi last month, ISIS gunmen followed this initial assault by riding in on minivans, backed by heavy mortar fire, to storm the positions held by stunned Egyptian troops. Altogether some 20 Egyptian army positions were attacked in and around Sheikh Zuwaid.
Egyptian troop reinforcements setting out from El Arish to the northeast to aid the beleaguered force, went up on mine and bomb traps secretly planted around their camps and police stations. Egyptian Apache assault helicopters striking the ISIS force themselves faced ground fire from shoulder-borne anti-air missiles.
The Islamists are additionally said to have taken Egyptian prisoners as hostages.
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www.debka.com/article/24710/Some-200-dead-%E2%80%93-Egyptian-troops-Islamists-civilians---in-major-ISIS-Egyptian-battle-in-North-Sinai-
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Post by Daniel on Jul 2, 2015 8:12:12 GMT -5
Ending honeymoon, Sinai turmoil sends Gaza back to square one
By Elhanan Miller July 2, 2015
As a state of war engulfs northern Sinai following a deadly coordinated attack by the Islamic State on Egyptian army positions Wednesday morning, the silence of neighboring Hamas-controlled Gaza is deafening.
A laconic statement published by Gaza’s interior ministry spokesman Iyad el-Bozom informed the public that security reinforcements have been sent to the Sinai frontier “in order to stabilize the security situation and keep the borders safe.”
Hamas has long tried to distance itself from the ongoing jihadi violence across the border, in towns like Egyptian Rafah, Sheikh Zuweid and el-Arish. But the Egyptian street, and its leadership, remain unconvinced.
The brief period of detente between Hamas and Egypt — which opened its Rafah border in recent weeks to allow thousands of Palestinians and tons of cement into the Strip — is now over.
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www.timesofisrael.com/ending-honeymoon-sinai-turmoil-sends-gaza-back-to-square-one/
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Post by sevenofnine on Jul 2, 2015 15:52:33 GMT -5
WHOA I think goes down very soon Al Jazeera has reporter embedded in Egypt military dude get some great reports
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Post by Daniel on Jul 3, 2015 9:11:47 GMT -5
May the Lord be praised for establishing a few SANE leaders in these times, particularly in Egypt.
Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever,
For wisdom and power belong to Him.
It is He who changes the times and the epochs;
He removes kings and establishes kings;
He gives wisdom to wise men
And knowledge to men of understanding.
It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things;
He knows what is in the darkness,
And the light dwells with Him.
Daniel 2:20-22
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 23:14:13 GMT -5
Egyptian President Sisi Rallies Troops Against ISIS
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Post by Daniel on Jul 5, 2015 8:27:10 GMT -5
ISIS rushes reinforcements to Egypt. Its next targets: The Pyramids and Sphinx
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 5, 2015
The Islamic State is rushing reinforcements to Egypt from Libya and Iraq for its battle with Egyptian forces in northern Sinai, which went into its fifth day Sunday, July 5, and other offensives, debkafile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources report. After sustaining hundreds of casualties, both sides claim to have won the upper hand but the tenacious struggle is not over.
An Islamist manpower pool is provided by Egyptian extremists who crossed into Libya in the past and settled in bases around Benghazi. Last week, ISIS summoned them to take up positions in Cairo and the Suez Canal and wait for orders to go into action. They crossed back with the help of smugglers. Those rings, dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood underground, with branches controlled by Hamas and Hizballah, bring illicit weapons and ammunition supplies to Sinai from Libya via Egypt.
President Abdel Fatteh El-Sisi is therefore obliged to earmark substantial military and intelligence resources for defending the Suez Canal and Cairo – more even than the Sinai front.
The other source of jihadi reinforcements is Iraq, They use another branch of the smuggling network which carries them through southern Jordan to the Gulf of Aqaba where they are picked up by smugglers’ boats and ferried across to the eastern coast of the Sinai Peninsula.
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www.debka.com/article/24720/ISIS-rushes-reinforcements-to-Egypt-Its-next-targets-The-Pyramids-and-Sphinx-
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Post by Daniel on Jul 5, 2015 8:31:20 GMT -5
Israel goes on the alert on her Sinai border
July 03, 2015 | Israel Today staff
The Islamic State (ISIS) organization launched an offensive against Egyptian security forces on Wednesday killing dozens. The fighting which is now in the third day is the largest battles that have taken place in the Sinai peninsula since the 1973 Yom Kippur war. The IS caught the Egyptian forces in north-western Sinai off guard with their surprise attack carrying out a well coordinated simultaneous attack on 15 posts and centers of the Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai.
In addition the, IS used sophisticated and modern weapons in their attacks. It was previously unknown that the IS fighters had the types of weapons at their disposal. Egypt quickly received clearance from Israel to move additional weapons, including tanks armored personnel carriers, Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets, into the Sinai.
The battles taking place between the Egyptian army and the ISIS fighters could also develop into rocket and mortar fire towards Israel, and the Central Command is preparing for that too. In the meantime, it seems that the IS fighters are busy battling the Egyptian army, which is attacking them from the air and from the ground, but the heightened state of alert on the Israeli side will likely continue for a few more days, as experience shows that ISIS will try to create provocations on the border with Israel in a bid to cause a friction between the IDF and the Egyptian army and affect the relationship between Egypt and Israel.
By Thursday night, Egypt had reported that they had killed 123 IS fighters in their retaliation.
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www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26921/Default.aspx
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Post by Daniel on Jul 23, 2015 9:52:37 GMT -5
ISIS infiltrates Egyptian special forces, joins with Hamas to occupy N. Sinai, liquidate Sisi
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report July 23, 2015
Islamic State affiliates in Sinai and Libya have banded together with the Palestinian Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip for the shared goals of capturing northern Sinai from the Egyptian army and staging an assassination coup against President Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi, debkafile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources report.
They are in the throes of four steps for promoting their objectives:
1. Monday, June 29, a rogue group of Egyptian Special Forces accessed the heavily-guarded upscale Cairo district of Heliopolis to plant a bomb car, which they remotely detonated as the convoy of their target, Egypt’s general prosecutor Hisham Barakat, went by. He was killed on the spot. The assassins were members of the Egyptian elite force which had defected to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
2. On July 1, ISIS forces launched their most ambitious offensive to date against Egyptian military and police facilities in northern Sinai. Still ongoing three weeks later, the losses the Egyptian military have sustained to date are estimated at 120 dead and hundreds injured. Though fighting fiercely, Egyptian troops have not been able to repel the continuous Islamist assault or contain its advance through the northeastern section of the peninsula...
3. On July 17, the Islamic state of Sinai sank an Egyptian coast guard vessel with a sophisticated guided Kornet anti-tank missile. The ship was patrolling the Mediterranean shore of Rafah to prevent the smuggling of arms and fighters from Egypt proper and Libya into northern Sinai. This was a landmark incident in that it was the first time ISIS is known to have sunk an adversary’s vessel at sea...
4. On July 22, an audio message began making the rounds in Cairo and other Egyptian cities claiming to be the voice of Hisham al-Ashmawy, an Egyptian Special Forces officer who defected to ISIS. He said the country had been “overpowered by the new pharaoh” and called on all Egyptians “to come together to confront the enemy.”...
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www.debka.com/article/24761/ISIS-infiltrates-Egyptian-special-forces-joins-with-Hamas-to-occupy-N-Sinai-liquidate-Sisi
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Post by Daniel on Aug 2, 2015 13:50:02 GMT -5
IDF says it could launch preemptive strikes in Sinai
By AFP July 30, 2015
A senior military officer has said Israel could attack militants affiliated to the Islamic State in neighboring Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, if they were about to attack Israeli soldiers or civilians.
The “threat of terror from Sinai” has grown in recent years, Brigadier General Royi Elcabets said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the end of his two years as commander of the Edom division that controls the border with the Sinai, Elcabets said IS’s Egypt affiliate could attempt an attack on Israel.
“It is our duty to preempt it and strike at it, if and when this happens,” he said in remarks relayed by the military.
Militants loyal to the Islamic State have killed hundreds of Egyptian policemen and soldiers in Sinai since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
The Egyptian military says it has killed more than 1,000 militants in Sinai, which borders Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
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www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-could-launch-preemptive-strikes-in-sinai/
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Post by Daniel on Mar 30, 2016 9:29:00 GMT -5
Sisi asks Obama for military intervention to save Egypt from ISIS
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report March 28, 2016
Egyptian President Abdel Fatteh El-Sisi has sent a secret missive to President Barack Obama asking for urgent US military intervention in support of Egypt’s war on the Islamist State in Sinai, before the jihadis pose a real threat to Cairo. debkafile’s exclusive intelligence and counterterrorism sources report that El-Sisi has come to the conclusion that Egyptian army lacks the ability to eradicate the terrorist peril without direct US military support.
In his note, he asks Washington to replicate in Sinai the format of US intervention in the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, namely, to send in special operations forces to establish bases and operate drones against jihadist targets. Unless stopped, he warns, the Islamic State is on the point of transforming the Sinai Peninsula into its primary forward base in the Middle East, bolstered by its branches of terror across North Africa, especially in Libya. US intervention is necessary to avert this.
So far, Sisi has received no answer from the White House and no sign of one in the pipeline.
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Some high-ranking military figures in Cairo have started talking about alternatives: If Washington refuses to come up with military assistance for fighting the Islamic State, perhaps the time has time to go elsewhere.
An Egyptian appeal to Moscow cannot be ruled out.
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www.debka.com/article/25331/Sisi-asks-Obama-for-military-intervention-to-save-Egypt-from-ISIS
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Post by Daniel on Jan 10, 2017 20:44:48 GMT -5
With big gains in N. Sinai, ISIS drives south
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 9, 2017
Egyptian control of the vast Sinai Peninsula is slipping fast. After gaining virtual sway over the north and its main roads, Islamic State Caliphate terrorists are moving ahead with an ambitious plan to devour a broad stretch of land on the eastern flank of central Sinai, debkafile’s military sources report.
Achieving this objective would bring the jihadists in position to directly threaten Egyptian beach resorts along the Gulf of Aqaba coast and its celebrated tourist resort of Sharm El-Sheikh. It would also bring them up to another section of the Egyptian-Israeli border.
These days, Egyptian forces move around the northern and eastern regions of the peninsula in heavily-armed convoys with tanks and air and helicopter support. Still, on Monday, Jan.9, a suicide bomber killed 13 Egyptian soldiers by blowing up a stolen garbage truck packed with explosives outside a police station in the northern Sinai center of El Arish. The blast was followed by an RPG ground attack on the checkpoint outside the building.
ISIS manages to inflict terror on Egyptian security forces despite the close military and intelligence cooperation between Egypt, the US and Israel for securing the north and keeping it out of ISIS control. Egyptian forces have their backs to the wall after failing to cement their authority there - or even carve out “sterile zones” for keeping the Islamists at arms length - although the Egyptian 2nd Army responsible for security in the north has been beefed up with tanks, air and helicopter reinforcements.
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debka.com/article/25879/With-big-gains-in-N-Sinai-ISIS-drives-south
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Post by Daniel on Mar 6, 2018 10:37:38 GMT -5
Egypt conducts first ever air strikes in the Nile Delta against terrorist targets
Abdel-Fatteh Al-Sisi, Egypt, Nile Delta
Mar 4, 2018
The Egyptian air force has bombed six terrorist targets in Sinai and, for the first time in its modern military history, in the famous Nile Delta. Reporting this on Sunday, March 4, the Egyptian military spokesman Col. Tamer Rifai did not specify which areas were struck in the two regions, or which terrorist organizations were targeted. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the very fact that the Egyptian military has expanded its counter-terror campaign from the Sinai desert into an area in northern Egypt testifies to the rising threat posed by the Islamic State and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
The Nile Delta, Egypt’s richest agricultural region for 5,000 years, has a population of 39 million, most of them living in the main towns of Alexandria and the Cairo conurbation and sparsely spread out in between. It fans out across 240 sq.km, from Alexandria in the west, through Port Said in the east and up to the Mediterranean in the north.
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www.debka.com/egypt-conducts-first-ever-air-strikes-nile-delta-terrorist-targets/
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