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The Wahat attack risks opening up another front for security forces far beyond northern Sinai<\/strong>, Patrick Markey and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan write for Reuters<\/a>. \u201cAnalysts and security sources said the heavy weapons and tactics employed indicated ties to Islamic State or more likely an al Qaeda brigade led by Hesham al-Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special forces officer turned jihadist.\u201d An intelligence analyst says, \u201cthere is a strong al Qaeda presence in Libya that can support such an endeavour in Egypt. Usually, a militant group in decline (IS) and an increase in competition between two groups translates into a more aggressive stance, and attempts at larger and more quality attacks.\u201d A police officer says the nature of this front is different from Sinai\u2019s as terrorists \u201care able to move in the Western Desert easier than they do in Sinai \u2026 It\u2019s not like Sinai, which you can cordon off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wahat attack risks opening up another front for security forces far beyond northern Sinai, Patrick Markey and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan write for Reuters. \u201cAnalysts and security sources said the heavy weapons and tactics employed indicated ties to Islamic State or more likely an al Qaeda brigade led by Hesham al-Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-637124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"58078e29-13e0-4ece-9739-5d70707b277d","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"996082ea-fd58-4def-8430-a4818ae8bbad","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[637100],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nWahat attacks risk opening new front for security forces -Reuters - 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