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Sinai Anarchy: Terrorists Kill Anti-Terror Tribal Chief
Arutz Sheva ^ | 13/8/12 | Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Posted on 08/13/2012 12:24:13 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Reuters - A group of armed men shot dead a tribal leader and his son on Monday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on the border with Israel, a security source said, as violence escalated on the sixth day of a military crackdown on militants in the area.

"Tribal leader Khalaf Al-Menahy and his son were shot dead by militants on their way back from a conference organized by tribal leaders to denounce militancy," said the security source in Sinai.

The attack occurred during a security sweep that began on Wednesday after the killing of 16 Egyptian border guards last week, which Egypt blamed on terrorists.

The military operation is the biggest in the region since the Yom Kippur War that Egypt launched against Israel in 1973.

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antiterror; murdered; sinai; tribalchief
So somehow all those Egyptian soldiers managed to miss this assassination squad. Impressive.
1 posted on 08/13/2012 12:24:24 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s bad news that power is now centered in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt will harm Israel and US interests. It’s “spring time” in the Middle East, according to McStupid, Dear Reader and Hitlery Clinton.

So the Department of State’s lifer lefties and the UN finally got their foreign policy will imposed on the US and Israel. They won! Radical Muslims control the Middle East.

World War Three coming right up. :(


2 posted on 08/13/2012 1:39:43 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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3 posted on 08/13/2012 9:13:16 AM PDT by SJackson (I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people people die of natural causes)
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To: SaraJohnson

“World War Three coming right up. :(”

No safer place to be for it than Israel, unfortunately.


4 posted on 08/13/2012 3:31:34 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Israel is going to suffer. Win in the end but suffer along the way, sadly.


5 posted on 08/13/2012 5:36:22 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

True. But there’s still no safer place.


6 posted on 08/14/2012 3:17:05 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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