23 Egyptian Soldiers including Colonel reported killed in Sinai attack

[libertad]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/10-killed-blitz-car-bomb-attack-egypts-sinai-48493947

Some news agencies are reporting another 40 were killed in the ensuing gun battle.

 

[Callsign Chaos]

RIP.

 

[Khanate]

Egypt: 26 soldiers killed in Sinai suicide attack
At least 26 soldiers killed in suicide bombing at army checkpoint near Rafah in northern Sinai, security sources say.

At least 26 Egyptian soldiers including a colonel were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an army checkpoint in northern Sinai, according to security sources.

Another 40 fighters were killed in a subsequent gun battle with soldiers at the checkpoint, an army spokesperson said on Friday.

The attack started when a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into the checkpoint at a military compound in the southern Rafah village of el-Barth, followed by heavy gunfire from dozens of masked fighters on foot, officials said.

The dead included a high ranking special forces officer, Colonel Ahmed el-Mansi, and at least 26 soldiers were wounded in the attack.

Sirens of ambulances were heard from a distance as they rushed to the site of the attack.

The officials spoke to AP news agency on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorised to speak to the media.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Bologna, Spain, Timothy Kaldas, a non-resident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, said there was a high likelihood that the attack would be claimed by Wilayat Sinai, a group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.

The group frequently targets military and police personnel, he said, adding that Friday's attack was "unfortunately a very predictable type of attack and something we've seen regularly".

Over the past months, ISIL has focused its attacks on Egypt's Christian minority and carried out at least four deadly attacks that killed dozens, prompting army chief-turned-President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi to declare a state of emergency in the country.

The Sinai branch of ISIL appears to be the most resilient outside Syria and Iraq, where the so-called caliphate is witnessing its demise.

The group's offshoot in Libya has been uprooted in months-long battles in the central city of Sirte while its branch in Yemen has failed to seize territories or compete with its al-Qaeda rivals.

Source: Al Jazeera

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[YeBeWarned]

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[Flash_Ninja]

F*ck ISIS.

Egypt needs to ramp up its military operations against these animals and wipe them off the face of the Earth.

 

[Gomig-21]

F*ck ISIS.

Egypt needs to ramp up its military operations against these animals and wipe them off the face of the Earth.

There is a major intelligence and military failure on a shameful level.

 

[Flash_Ninja]

There is a major intelligence and military failure on a shameful level.

Hopefully we can get the ball rolling on this Islamic Alliance, and Raheel Sharif can drop international troops into the Sinai ASAP.

We cant leave the responsibility of tackling a large group like ISIS on Egypt and a handful of other countries. Hell it took an entire coalition of well armed and well funded Western nations to dismantle Al Queda, a group arguably far tamer than ISIS.

 

[Gomig-21]

Hopefully we can get the ball rolling on this Islamic Alliance, and Raheel Sharif can drop international troops into the Sinai ASAP.

We cant leave the responsibility of tackling a large group like ISIS on Egypt and a handful of other countries. Hell it took an entire coalition of well armed and well funded Western nations to dismantle Al Queda, a group arguably far tamer than ISIS.

I can certainly appreciate what you're saying, and by all means let's get this Islamic Alliance going full blast. But where there is a difference is that unlike the coalition and Al Qaeda, this is in our home turf, and against our military personnel. It's one thing to miss a lone suicide bomber in a souk, but a military checkpoint in one of the most active hot spots for this sort of thing and taking out 2 or 3 dozen soldiers? There can't be a pass on this type of failure anymore. Some heads need to roll and roll hard. There needs to be a major revamping and improvement of the security and intelligence. They have failed and failed miserably and need to be held accountable.

 

[gangsta_rap]

This is very unfortunate. Alarming parallels between Musharraf's regime in Pakistan (which was marked with a homeland front in the War on Terror) and El Sisi in Egypt.

 

[The SC]

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[Ceylal]

There is a major intelligence and military failure on a shameful level.

Too big too fast and too heavy.The Egyptian military machine still believe in the Soviet doctrine and it seems to have difficulties in adapting to new type of warfare...

 

[Logicaldude]

I can certainly appreciate what you're saying, and by all means let's get this Islamic Alliance going full blast. But where there is a difference is that unlike the coalition and Al Qaeda, this is in our home turf, and against our military personnel. It's one thing to miss a lone suicide bomber in a souk, but a military checkpoint in one of the most active hot spots for this sort of thing and taking out 2 or 3 dozen soldiers? There can't be a pass on this type of failure anymore. Some heads need to roll and roll hard. There needs to be a major revamping and improvement of the security and intelligence. They have failed and failed miserably and need to be held accountable.

Sorry for your loss.

About the islamic alliance, you will let foreign troops into your country to fight an insurgency?

 

[GauMataSlaughterHouse]

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[Max]

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RIP soldiers.

 

[Imran Khan]

Now thats really sad day man . RIP solders