ISIS-Linked Terrorists Sink Egyptian Navy Ship Amid Suez Canal Expansion

Brietbart ^ | 17 July 2015 | John J. Xenakis

[Lorianne]

The ISIS-linked “Sinai Province” terrorist group sank an Egyptian navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea near Gaza and Sinai. They claim to have fired a rocket at the ship, setting it on fire and sinking. Some news reports confirm this, but the Egyptian military says that there was only an exchange of gunfire that caused the ship to catch on fire.

The attack comes just two weeks after Egypt said it was in a ‘state of war’ in northern Sinai, following July 1 when the same group conducted simultaneous coordinated terror attacks at 15 different locations in Sinai. According to Egyptian officials, at least 300 militants launched that offensive, of whom 100 were killed. The military said that 17 soldiers had been killed, but other reports put the death toll much higher.

The new attack appears to be a significant escalation by terrorists linked to the Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). Daily Star (Beirut) and Al Ahram (Cairo)

[Lorianne]

[exnavy]

When I was active some of the Egyptian patrol boats were fiberglass. That does not stand up well to missile fire.

[Gen.Blather]

It was probably a Hellfire or TOW supplied by Hillary Clinton to unseat Kaddafi. Apparently, between Iraq and Libya we have lost hundreds to the terrorists. People are going to be dying for a decade because of our administration’s incompetence.

The Israelis have had several patrol boats hit and at least one seriously damaged off the Lebanese coast. But these were probably caused by Silkworms fired from the beach. Those are too big to be smuggled easily into Egypt. The Israelis run with their anti-missile electronics on all the time. (A Greek freighter was sunk by a Silkworm off the Lebanese coast. It was mistaken for an Israeli ship.)

[familyop]

IS savages continue to try to set the record for bad public affairs.