{"id":37646,"date":"2013-09-19T08:23:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T12:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37646"},"modified":"2013-09-19T08:23:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T12:23:49","slug":"egypts-war-against-jihadists-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37646","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s war against jihadists continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/sep\/19\/egypt-troops-surround-islamist-stronghold-cairo\/\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Egyptian Army has raided two jihadist strongholds in recent days;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police arrested 32 suspects in house-to-house raids in Kerdasa, according to a security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters. The interior ministry said Farrag was killed by gunmen firing from the rooftops of several schools and mosques they had taken over.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s assault on Kerdasa is the second major operation by the army and police against a militant stronghold. On Sunday, a large police and army contingent retook the town of Dalga south of Cairo, ending two months of Islamists\u2019 rule there.<\/p>\n<p>The quick succession of the two major raids underline the resolve of the military-backed government to restore law and order throughout a country roiled by unrest and violence since the 2011 ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no retreat [from Kerdasa] until it is cleansed of all terrorist and criminal hideouts,\u201d [Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Hani Abdel-Latif] said in a statement.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the best news to come out of the entire region in a while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Egyptian Army has raided two jihadist strongholds in recent days; &hellip; <a title=\"Egypt&#8217;s war against jihadists continues\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37646\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Egypt&#8217;s war against jihadists continues<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}