Military operations, guns, insurgents, special forces, helicopters, attacks on check points,.... Northern and Mid Sinai is becoming a mini war zone. And its all because of the last tragic killings.
I studied various conflicts in the world and as I came across different examples in Africa and Latin America, an image of Egypt was forged in my head: this big crazy nation that luckily succeeded to keep itself safe from high rates of criminality, civil wars, insurgency, separatist movements,...etc.
But as time passes, this image seems to fall and the country seems to join another category. Criminality is not as high as in Brazil but we are on the road. Drug trafficking isn't as flagrant as in Mexico, but hey in less than one month we caught over 240 million narcotic pills in different ports,........ imagine how many have already passed. We have no rebel movements like in Colombia or Uganda, but dam it an attack by insurgents killed 16 army soldiers,.... not to mention the number of police officers killed during the last year and a half. Violence is no longer a phenomenon but a norm, the society is getting more brutalized and massacres are becoming less and less shocking.
No one remembers hearing of such a massacre for long time, probably since the early 90's known as the terror war era, when again radicals regularly attacked and killed soldiers with cold blood in South Egypt.
However, this time is still different. When? Why? & How? They attacked soldiers during iftar, a thing that we don't even remember Israelis have done during the war. They stole two armored vehicles and crossed the borders for a reason they only know. And How? that is a big question......how the fuck could they manage to plan, gather, attack a military checkpoint without any dam clue by the mighty EGIS or all the other national security bodies (even if they did inform the president as they claim)?
Anyway, I am too depressed to narrate the story, to analyze the facts (in case there were any), to speak of the whole incident. Its just too sad to know that fellow soldiers, whom I or my brother could have been in their place, were killed that way, and by so called egyptians. Its even sadder to know that there exist Egyptians ( whatever was all the conspiracy plots raised about who planned it) who are ready to execute such an operation against their army, which protect their borders, in that way, knowing that this army is constituted of faithful soldiers and recruits who are just spending a military service.
But I am also very annoyed hearing all the arguments given by the MB partisans and Morsi supporters, to defend and justify his decisions of releasing ex-terrorists and to maintain fully non controlled open borders & tunnels with Gaza. With no concern what so ever for Egyptian national security, they cant stop defending this pan-Islamist ideology on the expense of the nation's interests. There will be no Islamic, Arabic, African ...... what ever Umma, before having a powerful strong well-conserved Egypt, who knows well its ancient history, who believes in & protects its mixed identity and who seeks to be a leader not a periphery follower. May our beloved president and his hungry obedient gang gets it well.
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