On July 24, 2012, the jihadi group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, about which little is known, released a video documenting its multiple attacks against Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel. The pipeline, which has been attacked over a dozen times since 2011, has been the center of a politico-economic debate between the countries. These attacks, it should be noted, were hailed on at least two separate occasions by Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. ...
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