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Egyptian Salafists attack Iranian Diplomat’s home

by Phantom Ace Comments Off
Filed under Egypt, Headlines, Iran, Islamists at April 6th, 2013 - 10:56 am

I would laugh at the irony of history if Egyptian Salafists were to seize the Iranian embassy. It’s not outside the realm of possibility considering they have attacked an Iranian’s diplomat home and hoisted the flag of the Syrian rebels.

(Reuters) – Hardline Sunni Islamists tried to break into a senior Iranian diplomat’s residence in Cairo on Friday in protest at warming ties with Tehran after a 30-year estrangement, but were repelled by Egyptian police, a Reuters witness said.

About 100 members of two purist Salafist groups demonstrated against Egypt’s recent steps to improve relations with Iran, which were cut off after the 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution.

The protesters tore down an Iranian flag at the residence in a Cairo suburb and briefly hoisted the Syrian rebel flag in protest at Iran’s support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government before police removed it.

The ultra-conservative Salafi protesters are, like most Egyptians, Sunni Muslims. They are concerned about what they see as Iranian efforts to spread Shi’ite Islam in Sunni countries.

Evil vs. Evil!

Tags: Arab Spring, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Salafalists
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IDF/Shin Bet arrest two dozen PFLP terrorists near Jerusalem

by Mojambo ( 9 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, IDF, Israel, Palestinians, Terrorism at June 27th, 2011 - 9:01 pm

The sad thing is that many of these people had been released from Israeli prisons. Either execute them or lock them away for good.

by Staff

The IDF and the Shin Bet, the Israel Security Agency, have arrested close to two dozen Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) operatives who were running a number of terror cells near Jerusalem and planning to kidnap soldiers and perpetrate other terror attacks against Israel, it was released for publication on Sunday.

Some of the operatives, the Shin Bet said, were Arabs from eastern Jerusalem in possession of Israeli identity cards enabling them to travel freely throughout the country.

Over 20 suspects have been arrested in recent weeks, the Shin Bet said, including a number who have significant military experience and have been in Israeli prisons before.

One of the alleged leaders of the group was Nasser Abu- Khadir, a 50-year-old resident of the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem.

In 1981, Khadir was seriously injured when an explosive he was building blew up in his hands. In 1988, he was released from prison and continued to engage in anti-Israel terrorist activity, for which he was arrested a number of additional times over the years.

The Shin Bet said Khadir told his interrogators he was responsible for establishing the terrorist infrastructure based in Jerusalem and Ramallah, and was in touch with PFLP leadership in Damascus, which was supposed to provide financial and logistical assistance as well as overseas military training for Israel-based operatives.

Khadir allegedly instructed other members of the cells to purchase pistols and silencers, and surrendered a weapon that he had already obtained following his arrest.

Another senior operative was Walid Habas, 31, from Kfar Akab in northern Jerusalem.

Habas was released from an Israeli prison in 2007 after serving a four-year sentence for his involvement in the attempted lynching of an IDF soldier near Ramallah in 1998.

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