{"id":464,"date":"2014-10-22T02:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T23:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2014-10-22T02:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T23:31:35","slug":"egypt-sentences-7-jihadis-to-death-for-attacks-on-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Egypt sentences 7 jihadis to death for attacks on troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em><strong>Members of Al-Qaeda-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis found guilty of killing 6 soldiers and 2 explosive experts<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_465\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Egyptian-Army-soldiers-patrol-in-an-armored-vehicle-221014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-image-465 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Egyptian-Army-soldiers-patrol-in-an-armored-vehicle-221014.jpg\" alt=\"Egyptian Army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle backed by a helicopter gunship during a sweep through villages in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, May 2013. (photo credit: AP) Read more: Egypt sentences 7 jihadis to death for attacks on troops | The Times of Israel http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/egypt-sentences-7-jihadis-to-death-for-attacks-on-troops\/#ixzz3GpDgZq47  Follow us: @timesofisrael on Twitter | timesofisrael on Facebook\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Egyptian-Army-soldiers-patrol-in-an-armored-vehicle-221014.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Egyptian-Army-soldiers-patrol-in-an-armored-vehicle-221014-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egyptian Army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle backed by a helicopter gunship during a sweep through villages in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, May 2013. (photo by AP)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>An Egyptian military court sentenced to death seven members of an Al-Qaeda inspired jihadist group Tuesday for carrying out deadly attacks on the army, military officials said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two other members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis were sentenced to life in prison, which amounts to 25 years in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The Sinai-based group has claimed some of the deadliest attacks on security forces since the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi last year as retaliation for a crackdown on Morsi\u2019s supporters that has left hundreds dead and thousands jailed.<\/p>\n<p>The military court in Cairo convicted the nine jihadists of killing six soldiers in a March attack on an army outpost Qalubiya province, north of Cairo, army officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They were also found guilty of killing two military explosive experts when a joint police-army team went to arrest them after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Morsi\u2019s overthrow, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis was known for firing rockets at Israel and attacking pipelines in Sinai that supply gas to the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the group has claimed the beheading of men it accused of spying for the Egyptian army and Israel\u2019s Mossad intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>It says it supports the Islamic State group, which has seized swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, but has not pledged formal allegiance to the organization.<br \/>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong> Cairo &#8211; By AFP October 21, 2014 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/egypt-sentences-7-jihadis-to-death-for-attacks-on-troops\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Times of Israel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Al-Qaeda-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis found guilty of killing 6 soldiers and 2 explosive experts An Egyptian military court sentenced to death seven members of an Al-Qaeda inspired jihadist group Tuesday for carrying&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[285,287,288,291,239,242,290,286,289],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}