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Steven Emerson,
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December 7, 2018
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Report:
Muslim Brotherhood-linked Terror Group Killed 14 Egyptians Last Year
by IPT News • Dec 7, 2018 at 9:33
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A violent Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group, the Hasm Movement,
carried out several deadly attacks contributing to an overall increase in
terrorism plaguing Egypt last year, according to the 2018 Global Terrorism
Index report.
Deaths from terrorist attacks more than doubled in Egypt in 2017, as
coded by the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). Wilayat Sinai, the Islamic
State's Sinai Peninsula affiliate, remains Egypt's deadliest group. Wilayat
Sinai launched the deadliest attack in Egypt's history when 311 people
were killed in November 2017 in a coordinated assault on the al-Rawda
mosque.
The Islamic State in Egypt, which operates in the country's mainland and
was responsible for 98 deaths in 2017, is the country's second-deadliest terror
group. But beyond the Islamic State affiliates, the next most lethal
Egyptian terrorist group is the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) affiliate Hasm
Movement. Hasm carried out seven attacks in 2017, resulting in 14 deaths.
While less lethal than Islamic State affiliates in the country, the Hasm
Movement is relatively nascent, only emerging in 2016.
In June 2017, it detonated an "anti-vehicle explosive device"
in Cairo "which led to the destruction to the military vehicle and the
killing of two officers," according to a Hasm Movement statement released shortly after that attack.
Intelligence collected last year by Egypt's interior ministry suggested
that the Muslim Brotherhood is establishing "terrorist entities," including the Hasm
Movement and others, to carry out attacks in an attempt to conceal the
Brotherhood's responsibility.
In May, Najah Ibrahim, a former leader of the terrorist organization
Gamma'a Islamiya, revealed that these terrorist offshoots consist of Muslim Brotherhood
youth seeking to escalate violence against the Egyptian regime. Ibrahim
told al-Hayat news that some Brotherhood leaders encouraged the terrorist
groups to commit violence, according to an IPT translation.
Muslim Brotherhood figures also engage in violent incitement and
encourage others to conduct terrorist attacks.
In April 2017, a senior Muslim Brotherhood member, 'Izz Al-Din Dwedar, called for an "intifada" targeting Egyptian
embassies around the world in protest of death sentences handed to members
of the Brotherhood in Egypt at the time.
The terrorist group continues to pose a threat to Egyptian national
security. Egyptian authorities foiled
an alleged Hasm plot to attack during Egypt's presidential elections in
March.
The United States designated
Hasm and Liwa al Thawra, another Brotherhood-linked
group, as terrorist organizations in January.
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