Egyptian military kills 52 militants in Sinai
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The Egyptian Sinai, including here in El-Arish, has seen multiple Islamist attacks in recent years
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces killed 52 suspected militants in North Sinai, the military said in a statement on Monday.
Security forces launched a large-scale operation in February to crush militants who have waged an insurgency that has killed hundreds of security forces and residents over many years.
This is from Reuters, which has to use politically correct euphemisms. A few translations:
-When they say militant , they are referring to a terrorist.
-They often say suspected militant after the terrorist commits acts of murder (after all, he hasn't been brought to trial-- so he still only "suspected")
The totally self-governing independent Palestinian area of Gaza is a hot bed of extremely violent terrorists. Their primary target had been Jews, but since Israel reinforced the fence on their Gaza border, and the Egyptians ousted Islamist Egyptian dictator Morsi from power-- Gaza terrorists sympathetic to Morsi have been crossing their Gaza border into Egypt and regularly perpetrating acts of terror against Egyptian mosques and other civilian targets, as well as attacking Egyptian soldiers.
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The statement described those killed as "very dangerous" and said they were in possession of automatic rifles, ammunition, grenades and a drone.
Half of the militants were killed in al-Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, the statement said. Three military personnel were killed, it said.
Defeating the militants and restoring security after years of unrest has been a promise of Sisi, re-elected in March in a landslide victory against no real opposition.
The mainstream media:
I recall that there was someone in a high position who also euphemized "Islamic terrorism" to "workplace violence", and today nobody is a "terrorist", they are merely "mentally ill". The word "alleged" has also become quite common.
Do you remember the "Mohammed Cartoon Controversy"? I had been reading so European newspapers that covered it from the start-- before even coverage started in U.S. media.
All told, over 121 people were murdered as a result of the protests against freedom of the press....
Many US news editors self-righteously proclaimed that while they would give full coverage to the story about the cartoons, they weren't going to publish the actual cartoons themselves, which were what the whole brouhaha was about!
One of the original 12 blashemous Muhammed cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten
Why not let readers see the actual cartoons? Well, they claimed it was out of respect for Muslims' religious views!
Finally one courageous editor told the truth-- that story was a coverup. The real reason they didn't publish them? Because he was torn between his commitment to freedom of the press-- and what he felt was his obligation to the safety of his staff.
He was one of the few who actually had the cojones to admit the truth: if his paper published the cartoons, outraged Islamic extremists would most likely attack the paper and some of the staff might be murdered!