Posted on 07/19/2014 1:24:41 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Cairo (AFP) - Egypt's military said militants firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a border guards checkpoint Saturday, killing 21 soldiers in one of the biggest assaults since Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's ouster.
The attack in a desert area 630 kilometres (390 miles) west of Cairo left four soldiers wounded, the military said in a statement, blaming "terrorists".
It said a rocket propelled grenade fired by the militants set off an explosion in an ammunition depot at the El-Farafrah post, killing the soldiers.
Militants have stepped up attacks on the security forces since Morsi was toppled in July 2013 as the army struggles to quell an Islamist insurgency that has killed scores of soldiers and police, mainly in the Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Ping!
Was this the group Obama supported?
Article doesn’t specify. Seems a bit far from Gaza for the Hamasholes, but it could be another Muslim Brotherhood-related group.
“Was this the group Obama supported?”
He supported the Islamic Brotherhood and Hamas. They are brother organizations. The Egyptians are fighting the Brotherhood in Egypt and Hamas at the crossings. But there’s a lot of intermix as the Brotherhood runs Hamas’ logistics in Egypt. It is unlikely to be a third organization as it requires logistics and contacts to operate in either Egypt or Gaza.
I believe one and the same.
This attack in Western Egypt has more to do with the jihadists backed by 0bama in Libya.
It's good to have spare ammo close by. But not too close.
The residents of Halifax, NS, would agree with you.
Yeah, that should bring the Egyptians around to the Hamas view.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3182501/posts
> American Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro indicated Saturday night.
Was it because of a video? At this point, what does it really matter!
Link goes to a different story.
I didn’t include the title with the link, just a clip of the story where that link does indeed lead.
Oh, I misread the excerpt - I thought it said that Shapiro had been *indicted*, and I was trying to find by whom and for what. Thanks for clearing that up.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.