Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday that the cost of fighting terrorism is “very high,” but that Egyptians have chosen “the difficult path". In a phone-in with Amr Adib’s show Kol Youm (Everyday) on a privately owned satellite channel, Sisi said “I would like to remind you Egyptians and myself of July 24 (2013) I asked for a mandate from the people to counter terrorism and would-be violence, and people took to the streets. “The difference between normal media coverage and the estimates of the various state bodies of the size of the challenge was great,” he said. Sisi went on that “the size of the challenge was huge because you chose the difficult path. Sisi added that during the past three months, more than 1000 tons of explosives have been confiscated in Sinai, as well as millions of dollars that belong to terrorist.

Source: Egypt Independent January 10, 2017 13:36 UTC