BBCNEWS Newsnight November 24, 2017
There have been attacks on Coptic Christians and the Security Forces and convoys, but never before a successful attack on a mosque in sinai. I would hesitate to be absolute about it but what is quite clear is that everyone regards this as a major escalation. For obvious reasons, if you are claiming a religious justification as the Islamic State group does, you have to be quite careful about targeting of this kind. Why it has happened, there is a whole complex set of reasons for that that come out of the tangled recent history of sinai. For years now north sinai has seen worsening balance. For ...