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Thursday 23 July 2015
Suicide bomber kills Top militant urges holy war against Egyptian president
19 people in north
Afghanistan market SARAH EL DEEB El-Ashmawi also purported- tracks militant messages, last month, the first suc-
Associated Press ly allies himself in the audio first reported on the audio cessful assassination since
RAHIM FAIEZ CAIRO (AP) — A former with the Islamic State rival, Tuesday. The message lat- the 1981 killing of President
Associated Press army officer who is one of al-Qaida, led by Egyptian er was later widely shared Anwar Sadat. His assassins
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Egypt’s most wanted mili- militant Ayman al-Zawahri. on social media websites were military officers turned
— A suicide bomber at- tants called on his fellow In the audio, a quote by al- by militant sympathizers, militants. He also is wanted
tacked a market crowded countrymen to wage holy Zawahri comes before el- though The Associated over the failed assassina-
with shoppers Wednesday war against President Ab-
in northern Afghanistan, del-Fattah el-Sissi, describ- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, and Defense Minister Sedqi Sobh, left, stand to
killing at least 19 people ing him as a “new pha- attention while other members of the military look on at the Air Defense Academy in Alexandria,
and wounding 38 amid raoh” in a new recording. Egypt. The Egyptian president spoke to new military cadets on the occasion of the 63th
other Taliban assaults in the The call purportedly by anniversary of the officers’ coup in 1952 that toppled the monarchy.
area, authorities said. the militant, Hisham el-Ash-
No one immediately mawi, marks at least the (M. Samaha/Egyptian Presidency via AP)
claimed responsibility for third time a former military
the powerful blast in Faryab officer has been named as Ashmawi speaks, criticizing Press couldn’t indepen- tion attempt against the
province’s Almar district, a suspect in major attacks el-Sissi. dently verify it. interior minister in 2013 and
but suspicion immediately against troops in recent “He is following the foot- One military official said a brazen attack against
fell on the Taliban. Over- months, a reflection of the steps of his ancestor pha- el-Ashmawi was named troops last summer near the
night, there had been an increasing polarization in raoh, who declared himself as a suspect in the July 11 border with Libya. His name
Afghan military operation Egyptian society. It also God the great, using the bombing outside the Ital- was among two dozen mili-
targeting the insurgents in suggests a new insurgent worst type of torture and ian Consulate in Cairo that tants named in an Interior
the same district. group has joined the fight- harassment of Muslims and killed a bystander, the first Ministry video released to
The attack happened on ing in the country’s lawless using the deceptive magic attack on a diplomatic mis- the public in January 2014.
a weekly shopping day Sinai Peninsula. of the media,” el-Ashmawi sion in Egypt. El-Ashmawi Two other senior security of-
for the area, meaning the Officials say el-Ashmawi purportedly says. also is named as a suspect ficials said el-Ashmawi was
market teemed with shop- has worked closely with the The U.S.-based SITE Intel- in the killing of the coun- a major in the special forc-
pers and soldiers protect- Sinai-based Ansar Beit al- ligence Group, which try’s chief prosecutor late es dismissed in 2009.q
ing it when the bomber Maqdis, or “Champions of
detonated his explosive Jerusalem,” militant group
vest, police said. that pledged allegiance
The “target of the at- to the Islamic State group
tacker was military forces last year and is blamed for
that were present in the some of Egypt’s most high-
area but the majority of profile deadly attacks.
the victims were innocent In the recording, el-Ash-
civilians,” deputy provin- mawi, who goes by the
cial police chief Baryalia nom de guerre Abu Omar
Basharyar said. el-Muhajir, appears to be
Both Abdul Satar Barez, announcing a new group in
the acting provincial gov- Egypt called al-Morabtoon
ernor, and Sayed Masoud that’s allied to al-Qaida.
Yaqiubi, a spokesman for That’s a name previously
the provincial police chief, used by a militant group
gave the casualties figures. that operates in Algeria
Barez also said he feared and Libya, but it is unclear
the final death toll may be if the new Egyptian group is
higher as many among the linked to it.
wounded were in critical
condition. Iraq:
The United Nations Mis-
sion in Afghanistan con- Officials say Baghdad market bombs kill 26 people
demned the attack, say-
ing it showed insurgents’ VIVIAN SALAMA Later Wednesday, a sec- and government instal- almost daily in Baghdad,
“appalling disregard for Associated Press ond car bomb detonated lations. The radical Sunni but violence has been
human life.” Taliban insur- BAGHDAD (AP) — A pair in the northeastern neigh- group seeks to destabilize relatively subdued in the
gents have stepped up of car bombs exploded borhood of al-Shaab, killing the Shiite-led government capital since the height of
their attacks on Afghan sol- Wednesday at crowded at least eight people and in Baghdad and targets sectarian violence in 2006
diers and police in recent popular markets in pre- wounding 22, police said. those they view as apos- and 2007.
months. U.S. and NATO dominantly Shiite neighbor- Hospital officials corrobo- tates. They hold roughly a Large-scale military opera-
troops formally ended their hoods of the Iraqi capital, rated the casualty figures. third of Iraq and neighbor- tions are currently under-
combat mission at the end Baghdad, killing at least 26 All officials spoke on condi- ing Syria in their self-de- way in Iraq’s western Anbar
of last year, leaving Afghan people and wounding 58, tion of anonymity as they clared “caliphate.” province and in Salahuddin
forces in charge of security authorities said. were not authorized to On Friday, the militant province, north of Bagh-
in the country. The first explosion took brief journalists. group attacked a popu- dad, as the Iraqi military
In neighboring Zawzjan place in the impoverished No one immediately lar market in Iraq’s eastern and the government-sanc-
province, a patrol of the neighborhood of al-Bayaa claimed responsibility for Diyala province, killing 115 tioned Popular Mobilization
security forces belonging in southwestern Baghdad, the attacks. The Islamic people — the majority of Forces look to reclaim terri-
to the country’s first vice a police official said. The State militant group fre- them Shiite — in what was tory in the country’s Sunni
president, Abdul Rashid blast killed at least 18 peo- quently targets Shiite ar- one of the largest single at- heartland. A U.S.-led coali-
Dostum, also came under ple and wounded 36, the eas across the country, as tacks in Iraq over the past tion is supporting the oper-
attack late Tuesday night, official said. well as military checkpoints decade. Bombings occur ation with airstrikes.q
said Sultan Faizy, a spokes-
man for the official.q
