ISIS Affiliate Turns on Egypt: 26 Killed, 26 Injured

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Earlier this decade, when the Muslim Brotherhood was fairly lax and ineffective in fighting ABM, most of ABM’s deadly activity was conducted on the Sinai Peninsula. But since el-Sissi took over and started coming down hard on the militants, ABM has widened its activity.

“In the past year and a half, it has struck in the Egyptian mainland,” said Oren Kessler, deputy director for research at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. ABM “sees itself as part of the worldwide Muslim revival,” he added.

In early September, Reuters published an interview with an unnamed ABM commander who said not only has his group pledged allegiance to ISIS but ABM fighters were being trained by that group. Communicating through the Internet, “they teach us how to carry out operations,” the commander said. ISIS does not “give us weapons or fighters,” he added, “but they teach us how to create secret cells, consisting of five people. Only one person has contact with other cells.”
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