{"id":58266,"date":"2015-02-16T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58266"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:47:51","slug":"egypt-bombs-isis-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58266","title":{"rendered":"Egypt bombs ISIS in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58268\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Egypt-fighter-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Egypt fighter\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Egypt-fighter-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Egypt-fighter.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A video appeared on the internet yesterday of some Coptic Christian Egyptians who were beheaded by Islamic State thugs in Libya. Egypt wasted no time in paying IS back. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-31483631\">BBC<\/a>, Egypt responded with airstrikes in the Libyan city of Derna with the coordination of the Libyan government;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The kidnapped Egyptian workers, all Coptic Christians, were seized in separate incidents in December and January from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya, under the control of Islamist groups.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The video describes the Copts as &#8220;crusaders&#8221; and refers among other things to two women, wives of Coptic priests, whose alleged conversion to Islam triggered a sectarian dispute in Egypt in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/02\/16\/egypt-hits-isis-affiliated-terrorists-in-libya-after-video-showing-mass\/\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A spokesman for the Armed Forces General Command announced the strikes on state radio Monday, marking the first time Cairo has publicly acknowledged taking military action in neighboring Libya, where extremist groups seen as a threat to both countries have taken root in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the warplanes targeted weapons caches and training camps before returning safely. It said the strikes were &#8220;to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Libya&#8217;s air force commander, Saqr al-Joroushi, told Egyptian state TV that the airstrikes were coordinated with the Libyan side and that they killed about 50 militants. Libya&#8217;s air force also announced it had launched strikes in the eastern city of Darna, which was taken over by an ISIS affiliate last year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Copts had gone to Libya for work since Egypt has fallen on economic hard times since their revolutions.<\/p>\n<p>But, good for Egypt &#8211; they&#8217;re also battling IS militants in the Sinai, so this is just an extension of that battle. It&#8217;s about time that the regional governments stepped into the breech and started dealing with the Islamic State. It&#8217;s unfortunate that they waited this long, but late is better than never. The ultimate defeat of ISIS depends on the participation of the regional governments in this war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video appeared on the internet yesterday of some Coptic Christian Egyptians who were beheaded by &hellip; <a title=\"Egypt bombs ISIS in Libya\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58266\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Egypt bombs ISIS in Libya<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58266","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=58266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}