By Ajnadin Mustafa.
Tripoli, 26 October 2014:
The Egyptian government has vowed to avenge the deaths of the Egyptian soldiers killed by terrorists in a . . .[restrict]suicide bombing in southern Sinai on Friday. It is being suggested that this could involve targeting known terror camps in eastern Libya.
At least 30 military personnel were killed in the Sinai blast which targeted a security checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid.
Egyptian sources have said that initial investigations of the Sinai massacre have shown that a number of the terrorists involved belong to the Muslim Brotherhood and were trained in eastern Libya.
Moreover, it is being claimed that the weapons and munitions used in the attack bore Libyan serial numbers.
Egyptian authorities have been saying that for a long time terrorists are being trained in eastern Libya. They maintain that some 3,000 fighters have been passed through these battle camps. Some of them have reportedly then gone on to fight alongside Ansar Al-Sharia.
The Sinai killings are being described by Cairo as a retaliation for Egypt’s claimed involvement in air attacks in Libya and supply of weapons to pro-government forces. President Abdel Fatteh Al-Sisi’s government has denied it has had anything to do with air assaults.
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