Al-Mismary accepted a membership offer in the new group that started with 13 Egyptians along with other militants holding different nationalities.He justified joining a group outside Libya that the Islamic religion had no boundaries, stressing and there are many Islamists fighting in Derna but no one “resists injustice” in Egypt. He also described his travel to fight in Egypt as Hijrah (migration for the sake of God) to impose the Sharia Law in Egypt.Al-Mismary said that Sheikh Hatem rented a small farm in Derna, where they held their military training. He added that those newcomers had participated in the IS-claimed attack on the bus that was carrying Christians travelling from El-Minya to the St. Samuel the Confessor Monastery in Upper Egypt.Regarding the Al-Wahat clashes, the terrorist said that the militants responsible for watching the area were surprised by the security forces heading towards the camp. Sheikh Hatem divided the militants into two groups on the top of a hill and ordered them to attack the forces from behind sand dunes.The clashes between the police forces and militants lasted for an hour and a half, where two militants were injured and one killed, Al-Mismary said. The two men graduated from Egypt’s military academy the same year and were both fired from the army for adopting radical Islamist beliefs.The Al-Wahat attack was the latest to plague Egypt’s security forces that face an Islamic insurgency mostly focused in the Sinai Peninsula.

Source: Libya Today November 17, 2017 09:00 UTC