Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood goes underground, hides command structure in Gaza
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood goes underground, hides command structure in Gaza.
On July 22, debkafile revealed that a group of six Muslim Brotherhood officials escaped from Egypt after the July 3 overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in a military coup and smuggled themselves into the Gaza Strip to lead an uprising against the military.
The group was headed by Mahmud Izzat Ibrahim, known as the Brotherhood’s “iron man” and fourth in rank in its hierarchy after Supreme Guide Muhammed Badie.
The fugitives set up a command post at the Gaza Beach Hotel for operations against Egyptian military and security targets in collaboration with Hamas and armed Al Qaeda-linked Salafist Bedouin in Sinai. The group planned their revolt to spread quickly out from Sinai to Egypt proper and topple the interim rulers in Cairo.
Western intelligence agencies following the inner workings of the Muslim Brotherhood have since discovered that the Brotherhood’s plans are a good deal more high-powered than first thought.
According to debkafile’s intelligence sources, the movement never dismantled its clandestine paramilitary underground. Its hidden commanders manipulated front politicians from the shadows under three Egyptian presidents and continued to do so after the Brotherhood was elected to power in Cairo in 2012.
At all times since then, the Brothers stood ready to step in should their Freedom and Justice Party leaders be ousted and sent back to prison. “Supreme Guide,” Mohammed Badie was therefore no more than an obedient front for the Muslim Brotherhood’s real leader, who was until now Mr. X.
It now transpires that he is none other than Mahmoud Izzat Ibrahim, who is firmly at the helm and running the show both in Sinai and Cairo from the Gaza Beach Hotel, under the auspices of the Palestinian Hamas rulers.
He plans to confront with violence every action ordered against the Brotherhood by Defense Minister, Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
While conducting a war of terror against military targets in Sinai, Izzat Ibrahim’s orders keep thousands of followers maintaining their sit-in protests in Cairo for their president’s reinstatement. They are determined to leave the military no option but to use force to disperse them.
Ibrahim’s goal is to lead his movement into a bloody confrontation with the military.
Gen. El-Sisi, for his part, knows that the Brotherhood’s underground command center in the Gaza Beach Hotel must be destroyed in order to beat its war of resistance.
For effective action in the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian military needs help from Israel’s Defense Forces, just as the IDF needs the Egyptian army to counteract the al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists in Sinai who are dedicated to attacking Israel as well as Egypt.
This tacit interdependence and the interchanges against a shared enemy shot into prominence over two incidents. The first was the two-hour closure Thursday, Aug. 8 of Eilat airport at Israel’s southernmost tip, following an Egyptian intelligence tip-off over a missile threat from Sinai. Then Friday, Aug. 9, foreign sources reported that two missiles fired by an Israeli drone in North Sinai destroyed a missile launcher and killed four or five terrorists at Ajarah.
Israel never confirmed this attack. The impression it made was quickly overlaid with conflicting reports. Egyptian officials initially attributed the Israeli drone attack to intelligence cooperation between the two armies. An Al-Qaeda group in Sinai, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, accused Israel of killing four of its members by a drone strike and vowed vengeance. debkafile reported that the attack may not have been conducted by Israel but Egyptian authorities, which preferred to disavow an operation carried out on the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.
Finally, Sunday, the Egyptian military reported that its operation against armed groups in the Sinai believed to have been plotting attacks on security forces and other targets was ongoing. At least seven people were killed over night and six arrested in a raid.
The Egyptian military statement went on to report that the raid followed an air strike by the Egyptian military on Friday, which saw at least four people killed. The assault on Saturday happened when Apache helicopters hit areas south of Sheikh Zuwaid in north Sinai, according to Egyptian state media.
Israel’s Defense minister commented: “The Egyptian army is fighting first and foremost to defend Egyptian citizens and sovereignty. We will not let rumors and speculation impair the peace relations between our countries.”
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WarSclerotic 
August 11, 2013 at 10:36 PM
One doesn’t have to be an Al Jezeera news anchor for understanding a very basic and also crucial fact: the showdown between the Egyptian Army and the Brotherhood followers which now are demonstrating in mass – this confrontation is already here and is only a matter of hours, may be days until we’ll see the ”final cut” of this event.
If there will be hundreds of causalities – we don’t dare to think about much more than that – than an Islamic Pandora Box will be opened and the conflict in Egypt can take many forms, inclusive chaos generated by terrorist actions on a daily basis.
When a decided army stands before fanatic people, every card can enter the play and every game can be played.
August 12, 2013 at 9:21 AM
Some thousand liters of liquid manure would solve the crisis 😉
August 12, 2013 at 11:39 AM
SAS sales to the Gulf to smash Al-Qaeda
11 Aug 2013 11:14
The massive show of power, backed by French allies, is designed to frighten off the terror group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
British special forces will steam towards the Gulf tomorrow in a dramatic bid to stifle an Al-Qaeda comeback.
The massive show of power, backed by French allies, is designed to frighten off the terror group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
A fleet of four Royal Navy warships from the Response Force Task Group will be led by their flagship, the amphibious assault vessel HMS Bulwark.
The ships will head for the region supported by five auxiliary vessels for four months of war games codenamed Cougar 13.
The task force will be guarded by Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious – and also the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which will have 700 marines on board.
Later this month 850 Royal Marine Commandos will practise making amphibious landings in Albania.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sas-sales-gulf-smash-al-qaeda-2151431
August 12, 2013 at 3:09 PM
They went weeks ago there is much more than that it will be a massive show of navel and air power we have 2000 aircraft ready and twice the number of tankers we need plus awcs its aimed strait at russia not jihads,thers a massive sow of air power above us now hundreds of aircraft and tankers in the air,one thing for sure the shits about to hit the fan now watch a real power watch them all run
August 12, 2013 at 8:42 PM
i forgot were popping over to see the spanish on the way,we have a irritating pest just off jib that needs controlling
August 12, 2013 at 6:58 PM
It get better :
http://osnetdaily.com/2013/08/anti-ship-cruise-missile-intercepted-for-first-time-with-jlens-guided-amraam/
The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force intercepted for the first time an anti-ship cruise missile surrogate using Raytheon’s Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) cued by JLENS. An affordable, elevated, persistent over-the-horizon sensor system, JLENS uses a powerful integrated radar system to detect, track and target a variety of threats.
“Integrating JLENS’ precision detection and targeting information with the combat-proven AMRAAM gives our military a new way to defend the fleet and our allies from anti-ship cruise missiles that threaten vital waterways and critical chokepoints,” said Dave Gulla, vice president of Global Integrated Sensors for Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems business.
During the July 17 test, the Army’s JLENS acquired and tracked an anti-ship cruise missile surrogate and passed targeting data to an Air Force F-15E via Link 16, enabling the fighter pilot to fire an AIM-120C7 AMRAAM, culminating in the weapon intercepting the target, meeting all test objectives
August 12, 2013 at 6:16 PM
A certain report on Israeli Radio sparked today an interesting thinking – at least, in our opinion, but of course, everything is debatable – regarding the entire Iranian issue / problem.
Lets suppose, for the sake of the discussion, that Saudi Arabia will get one day nuclear weapons. We’ll not going to attack them, will we? And is also obviously why: Saudi Arabia is not the ayatollah regime. And what about Egypt? If Egypt will acquire nuclear military capability, I can assure you that no Israeli jets will go out in a mission over Egypt. So what is going on, practically? Why is Israel so hot on Iran? We all know the answer: the Iranian regime said not once, not twice, but many times, that Israel should not be allowed to exist. So, nuclear weapons in the Iranian hands is, for Israel, like a cigar in the hand of a man in a gas station. Is unacceptable. But what about a change in regime in Iran? More logical, more cooling things down and without any ahmadinejadical poisoned rhetoric? We thought about that today, when we read the following report (Kol Israel, Reshet Bet, the Hebrew website) : There is a certain divide between the new Iranian president and the fanatic religious scholars in Iran and in the Iranian parliament because of the team Rouhani choose to work with : all are western educated people. May be is still hope in Iran. I really wish it is. Because a great storm is approaching our region and its clouds are not from Iran.
August 12, 2013 at 6:44 PM
Very good thats all true,but like you say theirs a very big storm coming if the shit hits the fan and its looking like the fan is turning.lets hope nothing hits it
August 12, 2013 at 7:09 PM
According to this independent Iranian website : http://www.iran-resist.org/ ,
the Iranian oligarchy is running scared. Basically, rival members are fighting to decide who will negotiate with the U.S. oligarchy to get amnesty from all the acts of terrorism committed abroad for the past decades, and then be allowed to live happily in some other countries and profit from the billions of dollars saved in Western banks. A mafia negotiating with another mafia. Mullahs who are known puppets of the CIA would then take over. There is one problem, though : the people of Iran may revolt at any time, and Iran would be back to before the CIA-MI6 coup of 1953 : an independent nationalist country.
August 12, 2013 at 8:39 PM
Kishonist there is hiterical laughter here at you post
August 12, 2013 at 10:34 PM
Help me understand you, please answer this question : who killed JFK ?
August 12, 2013 at 11:14 PM
if you want to know that ask the Russians they know,the iran contra money was redirected look what happened after that to see the trail
August 12, 2013 at 11:51 PM
And what about Elvis? Some say he didn’t die, he just left the building.
August 13, 2013 at 8:23 AM
Please, be careful with that question, Kishonist (regarding JFK). You might got even an answer to it.
August 13, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Looks like we have got the cream of the crop here.