NEW TERRORIST CHALLENGES IN THE SINAI PENINSULA – PROMINENT JIHADIST ORGANISATIONS
NEW TERRORIST CHALLENGES IN THE SINAI PENINSULA – PROMINENT JIHADIST ORGANISATIONS

Summary/Abstract: After the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, public order effectively collapsed in the Sinai Peninsula. Many condemned Jihadist operatives have been freed from prisons. New terror-organisations were formed with the cooperation of escaped Jihadist operatives (e.g. Ansar al-Jihad in the Sinai Peninsula and Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, Muhammad Jamal Network or Ajnad Misr). These groups are similar in that they are in a loose or close relationship with the alQaeda’s global organisation, deny the Egyptian government’s authority, which they consider corrupt, fight jihad for the establishment of an Islamic State and their targets are mainly personals of the Egyptian security forces as well as the Egyptian–Israeli gas-pipeline.Many of the inhabitants, who are living below the subsistence level and under discriminative measures, are receptive to their extreme ideology and they are about to establish their own Islamist emirate, propagating by the extremist. Currently, the Egyptian government sees the solution to build up closer cooperation with neighbouring Arab and African countries in the fight against terrorism. It is imperative for Cairo to solve the problem, because a long-continued conflict deters foreign investment and inhibits the restoration of the critical economic situation.

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