Posted on 11/24/2015 2:30:54 PM PST by Trumpinator
Militants Attack Hotel in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Killing at Least 7
By KAREEM FAHIMNOV. 24, 2015
CAIRO — Islamic State militants attacked a hotel in the northern Sinai Peninsula of Egypt with explosives and gunfire early on Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including a judge, according to security officials, Egyptian state media and a statement by the group.
The hotel, the Swiss Inn Resort in El Arish, was housing judges who were monitoring Egypt’s parliamentary elections, an important political milestone for the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The militants were able to penetrate the hotel despite the heavy security measures in place across the country, sending a suicide attacker driving an explosive-packed car and a gunman who stormed into the hotel and shot the judge.
Egypt’s Islamic State affiliate, known as the Sinai Province, claimed responsibility for the hotel attack in a statement circulated on social media by supporters. As it has in past statements, the group said the latest attack was carried out in retaliation for the government’s imprisonment of women, whom it did not name.
The group, one of the more active branches of the Islamic State, has carried out numerous attacks in the northern Sinai. Last month, it claimed responsibility for bringing down a Russian plane carrying tourists from the resort of Sharm el Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. They were also behind a bombing at a police club in El Arish this month that killed four officers.
The claim concerning the Russian jetliner reflected the Sinai Province’s shift in focus over the past two years, toward civilian targets and away from attacks mainly on the security services.
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Militants? What sort of militants? Tea Party militants? Baptists? Kurds?
The hits just keep on coming.
Don’t forget to watch the WH dancing and musical event coming up soon on Political Amorphous TV.
Sinai was a good place to be when the Israelis held it.
It is getting very hot in the Middle East!
what the *** is a militant? What the *** is an extremist? What the *** is a fundamentalist? Jesus call them what they are. Muslim. Say the word.. It’s easy. Sorry this is the only way I know how to say this in Staten Islandese
Can’t be peaceful Islam. Obama sez so.
“Sinai was a good place to be when the Israelis held it.”
I had a great time in Sinai back in 78.
We’re just getting started
Islamic state militants, same ones who claimed to bring down the Russian airliner.
I thought we got rid of the word “militants” decades ago. Pablum from the NYT.
I guess Obama wrote the headline.
If they are nervous, they can convert, cower or leave. Let them chose.
Wrong thread!
Climate Induced Militants...
Boy ever since the Iranians got that 100 billion bucks, things are really hopping and popping around the world aren’t they. Coincidence?
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