Foreign intelligence behind recent terror attacks: Egypt's interior ministry
Attacks on army checkpoint in North Sinai and on navy ship were carried out
with foreign intelligence support
Ahram Online , Monday 17 Nov 2014
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/115758/Egypt/Politics-/Foreign-intelligence-behind-recent-terror-attacks-.aspx

Egypt's interior ministry said on Monday that foreign intelligence was
behind the recent attacks against Egypt's army in North Sinai and Damietta,
state-run news agency MENA reported.

Abdel-Latif added that the identity of the parties supporting the terrorist
groups "would be revealed after army's recent strikes against militant
groups in North Sinai."

In late October, an attack on an army checkpoint in North Sinai left over 30
soldiers dead. The Sinai-based militant group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (ABM)
claimed the attack in a 30-minute video clip published online on Friday. ABM
has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, the militant group which has
seized large parts of Iraq and Syria.

The North Sinai attack prompted Egypt's army to create a buffer zone between
Rafah and the Gaza Strip in an effort to root out the militant groups
operating in the area.

The second attack Abdel-Latif referred to occurred last week, when the
Egyptian army said that one of its boats was attacked off the coast of
Damietta in the Mediterranean Sea. Five navy personnel were injured and
eight were left missing, the army said.

An anonymous group of masked men released a video claiming responsibility
for the navy attack.

Egypt's security forces have been facing a decade-long jihadist militant
insurgency in Sinai, with militant attacks increasing over the past year and
expanding into Cairo and the Nile Delta, killing hundreds of army and police
personnel.

The military says it has killed and arrested hundreds of militants.
Civilians have also been caught up in the violence.

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