Terrorist who planned 2011 attack on Eilat blows himself up
The terrorist who planned the 2011 attacks on Eilat
blew himself up last week when the car in which he was driving crashed, setting off his bomb.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) announced on Friday that
Tawfiq Mohamed Fareej, one of its founders died in the car accident, AFP
reported.
Fareej led the August 2011 crossborder attack in Israel that killed
eight people and he was also involved in a failed assassination attempt
on the Egyptian interior minister, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis said in a
statement, according to the report.
State-run news website
Al-Ahram also reported that Fareej had died, but said he was killed by
an army raid in the Sinai peninsula. The army was not immediately
available to comment on this.
The 2011 attack was a three-stage
terrorist attack along Israel’s border with Egypt which began when
terrorists opened fire at an Egged bus traveling on Road 12 near Eilat.
Several
minutes later, a number of bombs went off next to an IDF patrol
traveling along the border with Egypt. There were also reports of mortar
fire from Egypt into Israel. The terrorists apparently then moved on to
another spot and fired an anti-tank missile at another vehicle.
Faster, faster....
Labels: Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Egypt, Eilat, Islamic terrorism, Sinai
Video: Jihadis from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis down Egyptian helicopter
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, I reported that Sinai jihadis had
obtained surface-to-air missiles. The basis for that report was a report on a downed Egyptian army helicopter in which five Egyptian troops were killed. The Egyptian army claimed it was a result of a technical malfunction, while the jihadi group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claimed that their men had downed the helicopter by firing a missile. Now, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has released video proving their claim.
Let's go to the videotape.
JPost adds:
The clip features an audio track of a Koranic verse titled "The hand of
God is what struck." A voiceover belonging to "Abu Osama al-Masri" is
then heard warning the Cairo regime of a similar fate that befell Syria,
Libya, and deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
"Did the United States help [Mubarak]?" the speaker asks sarcastically.
"If you do not cease collaborating with the fighters of Muslims, we will
stand against you and all of your planes won't help because we are the
soldiers of God," the speaker says in the video.
That sure doesn't look like a simulation, nor does it look like a technical malfunction. Hmmm.
Labels: Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, Egyptian army, jihad, Sinai
