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*** 27-May-17 World View -- Egypt's warplanes attack Libya camps after terror attack kills Coptic Christians
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Terrorists massacre dozens of Coptic Christians in Egypt
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Screen grab from terrorist public relations video showing Egyptian Coptic Christian fishermen just prior to beheading in Libya in Feb 2015
On Friday, ten masked gunmen driving three 4x4 wheelers opened fire
with "random shooting" about 140 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, on a
convoy of two buses carrying Coptic Christians who were traveling
towards Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery in Maghagha to pray,
killing 26 and injuring 25.
Friday's killings were just the latest in a wave of terror attacks on
Coptic Christians. In December, dozens of people were killed
by a terrorist explosion during
Sunday prayers in the chapel of St Peter and St Paul (El-Botroseya)
adjoining Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo.
Then last month in April, during Palm Sunday services, there were
coordinate bombing attacks on Coptic churches
in two different cities, killing over 75 people and
wounding dozens more. A furious president Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi
declared a state of emergency in Egypt for three months, allowing
authorities to make arrests without warrants and search people's
homes. This gave the government near dictatorial powers that could
easily be abused, but they didn't prevent Friday's terror attack on
Coptic Christians.
Coptic Christians are vocal supporters of al-Sisi, but they are
furious at the al-Sisi government for not preventing these repeated
attacks, but al-Sisi seems helpless to stop them. The Coptic church
dates back nearly 2,000 years, almost to the time of Christ. Coptics
make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population of 92 million.
No one has yet claimed credit for Friday's attacks, but both the
previous attacks were claimed by the Sinai terror group called Ansar
Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM - Ansar Jerusalem - Champions of Jerusalem). The
group changed its name to Al Wilayat Sinai (Province of Sinai) when it
changed its allegiance in 2015 from al-Qaeda to the so-called Islamic
State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). Al Ahram (Cairo) and France 24 and Reuters
Related Stories
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**** Egypt's warplanes bomb al-Qaeda jihadist training camps in Libya
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In a TV speech late on Friday, Egypt's president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi
promised to "protect our people from evil," and announced that
warplanes were attacking the town of Derna in eastern Libya, near the
border with Egypt. According to al-Sisi,
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The terrorist incident that took place today will not
> pass unnoticed. We are currently targeting the camps where the
> terrorists are trained."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Forces from the East Libyan government (one of the three governments
currently in Libya) said that they participated in the airstrikes.
This was not the first time that al-Sisi ordered the bombing of
al-Qaeda camps in Libya. Readers may recall a widely publicized
terror attack from February 2015. The terrorist group Ansar
al-Sharia, which had recently changed allegiance from al-Qaeda to
ISIS, released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic
Christian workers who had been kidnapped while serving as guest
workers in Sirte. The 21 hostages were identified as fishermen from
an impoverished village in northern Egypt.
At that time, al-Sisi declared seven days of national mourning, and
announced that warplanes has conducted air strikes against militant
targets in Libya, including training camps in arms depots. The
targets were in the region of Derna, the same as the latest
airstrikes. AP and BBC (16-Feb-2015) and Daily Mail (London)
Related Stories
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Egypt, Coptic Christians, Libya, Derna, Sirte,
Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery, Maghagha,
Ansar Jerusalem, Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, ABM, Champions of Jerusalem,
Sinai Province, Al Wilayat Sinai, Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Egypt, chapel of St Peter and St Paul, El-Botroseya,
Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Terrorists massacre dozens of Coptic Christians in Egypt
- Egypt's warplanes bomb al-Qaeda jihadist training camps in Libya
****
**** Terrorists massacre dozens of Coptic Christians in Egypt
****
Screen grab from terrorist public relations video showing Egyptian Coptic Christian fishermen just prior to beheading in Libya in Feb 2015
On Friday, ten masked gunmen driving three 4x4 wheelers opened fire
with "random shooting" about 140 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, on a
convoy of two buses carrying Coptic Christians who were traveling
towards Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery in Maghagha to pray,
killing 26 and injuring 25.
Friday's killings were just the latest in a wave of terror attacks on
Coptic Christians. In December, dozens of people were killed
by a terrorist explosion during
Sunday prayers in the chapel of St Peter and St Paul (El-Botroseya)
adjoining Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo.
Then last month in April, during Palm Sunday services, there were
coordinate bombing attacks on Coptic churches
in two different cities, killing over 75 people and
wounding dozens more. A furious president Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi
declared a state of emergency in Egypt for three months, allowing
authorities to make arrests without warrants and search people's
homes. This gave the government near dictatorial powers that could
easily be abused, but they didn't prevent Friday's terror attack on
Coptic Christians.
Coptic Christians are vocal supporters of al-Sisi, but they are
furious at the al-Sisi government for not preventing these repeated
attacks, but al-Sisi seems helpless to stop them. The Coptic church
dates back nearly 2,000 years, almost to the time of Christ. Coptics
make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population of 92 million.
No one has yet claimed credit for Friday's attacks, but both the
previous attacks were claimed by the Sinai terror group called Ansar
Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM - Ansar Jerusalem - Champions of Jerusalem). The
group changed its name to Al Wilayat Sinai (Province of Sinai) when it
changed its allegiance in 2015 from al-Qaeda to the so-called Islamic
State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh). Al Ahram (Cairo) and France 24 and Reuters
Related Stories
- Egypt in 3-month state of emergency after Coptic church bombings (10-Apr-2017)
- ISIS forces hundreds of Christians to flee Egypt's North Sinai (28-Feb-2017)
- Terror bombing of Coptic Christian church in Cairo Egypt kills 25 (12-Dec-2016)
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**** Egypt's warplanes bomb al-Qaeda jihadist training camps in Libya
****
In a TV speech late on Friday, Egypt's president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi
promised to "protect our people from evil," and announced that
warplanes were attacking the town of Derna in eastern Libya, near the
border with Egypt. According to al-Sisi,
> [indent]<QUOTE>"The terrorist incident that took place today will not
> pass unnoticed. We are currently targeting the camps where the
> terrorists are trained."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
Forces from the East Libyan government (one of the three governments
currently in Libya) said that they participated in the airstrikes.
This was not the first time that al-Sisi ordered the bombing of
al-Qaeda camps in Libya. Readers may recall a widely publicized
terror attack from February 2015. The terrorist group Ansar
al-Sharia, which had recently changed allegiance from al-Qaeda to
ISIS, released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic
Christian workers who had been kidnapped while serving as guest
workers in Sirte. The 21 hostages were identified as fishermen from
an impoverished village in northern Egypt.
At that time, al-Sisi declared seven days of national mourning, and
announced that warplanes has conducted air strikes against militant
targets in Libya, including training camps in arms depots. The
targets were in the region of Derna, the same as the latest
airstrikes. AP and BBC (16-Feb-2015) and Daily Mail (London)
Related Stories
- US, Britain, France preparing new Libya military offensive early in 2016 (06-Jan-2016)
- Egypt in mourning as ISIS-linked terrorists kill Coptic Christians in Libya (16-Feb-2015)
- Egypt faces two-front war with airstrikes in Libya (17-Feb-2015)
- Embassies in Tripoli evacuated, as Libya sinks into tribal war (28-Jul-2014)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Egypt, Coptic Christians, Libya, Derna, Sirte,
Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery, Maghagha,
Ansar Jerusalem, Ansar Bayt al Maqdis, ABM, Champions of Jerusalem,
Sinai Province, Al Wilayat Sinai, Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh,
Egypt, chapel of St Peter and St Paul, El-Botroseya,
Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Permanent web link to this article
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John J. Xenakis
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Phone: 617-864-0010
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