Posted on 02/10/2015 5:40:24 AM PST by tired&retired
Intelligence gathered by Egypt and Israel attest to the former Ansar Bait al-Maqdis - now reborn as the Islamic State’s operational arm in Sinai – being well into advanced preparations for a large-scale terrorist offensive targeting Israel forces manning the Egyptian frontier, along with a string of Egyptian targets across Sinai up to and including the Suez Canal and Cairo.
According to DEBKAfile’s counter-terrorism sources, the Islamist group was so elated by the outcome of its multiple attacks on Jan. 29, which left at least 40 Egyptian soldiers dead and more than 100 injured in Sinai and Suez towns, that it is determined to keep going. Using different types of rockets, including Grads, as well as mortars and car bombs, terrorist squads then broke into military bases in four cities in Sinai and two on the Suez Canal and set them on fire. Others killed all the personnel aboard military and police convoys before putting them to the torch.
The ISIS Sinai arm is planning to target Israeli forces with a similar type of multiple offensive. Appropriate precautions for fending off this attack are in place.
Also:
Netanyahu determined to give his Iran speech to US Congress
DEBKAfile February 9, 2015, 8:27 PM (IDT)
Despite the criticism he faces from the opposition at home and Democratic circles in Washington, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Monday emphasized his determination to appear before the US Congress and tell the American people that a dangerous nuclear accord is taking shape with Iran.
He denied reports appearing in some international media that he was considering alternatives to the speech to the two Houses. Differences between the Israeli and US governments have cropped up in the past, Netanyahu noted, but the friendship binding the countries remained firm.
Not to put too fine a point on the matter, but a coordinated attack with mortars and other battlefield equipment on a detachment of Israeli troops isn’t “terrorism” — no matter how “terrible” the result may be.
No, it’s plain, old-fashioned military aggression, otherwise known as “war.”
(Terrorism is the deliberate targeting of non-combatants, with the goal of intimidating them and their leadership into some kind of submission or political accommodation.)
Exactly...this would end up being nothing but a Banzai suicide assault.
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