{"id":30465,"date":"2016-11-21T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nearly-300-detained-in-egypt-over-sissi\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T02:00:21","slug":"nearly-300-detained-in-egypt-over-sissi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nearly-300-detained-in-egypt-over-sissi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 300 detained in Egypt over Sissi assassination plot, Sinai attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Authorities say 292 jihadi suspects linked to IS will be tried for plans to kill Egyptian president, Saudi crown prince.}<\/p>\n<p>Cairo, Egypt \u2014 Egypt will try 292 jihadist suspects linked to the Islamic State over plots to assassinate President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and the Saudi crown prince and attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, a prosecution official said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, including 151 currently in custody, were referred to a military court for alleged membership of the \u201cSinai Province\u201d, the local affiliate of the Islamic State group, which is leading an insurrection in the Sinai.<\/p>\n<p>Sinai Province has carried out scores of attacks in recent years, mainly targeting security forces. The insurgents stepped up their attacks in 2013 when el-Sissi, who was then the army chief, led the overthrow of Egypt\u2019s first freely elected president, the Islamist Mohammed Morsi.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian officil said the suspects were questioned about the accusations against them and 66 confessed during an investigation that lasted more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>All of the suspects were involved in 17 operations, including two plots to kill Sissi, one while he was on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and one in Cairo, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The official gave no further details, but said those who planned the assassination attempts were dismissed police officers who adhere to jihadist ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects allegedly also planned to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in the Gulf kingdom and five Egyptian judges.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the plots were given.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution also accuses the suspects of attacking army and police checkpoints and bases in the Sinai, and of responsibility for a February 2014 attack on a bus carrying South Korean tourists in the south Sinai tourist resort of Taba that killed three holidaymakers.<\/p>\n<p>The army has been battling an Islamist insurgency in northern Sinai which escalated after the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s government says hundreds of police and soldiers have died in the attacks, which have also hit Cairo and the Nile Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the attacks have been claimed by the Egyptian IS affiliate, which also said it bombed a Russian plane over Sinai in October 2015, killing all 224 people on board, most of them Russian tourists.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16506 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mideast-egypt-imf_horo-635x357.jpg\" alt=\"In this June 1, 2016 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Authorities say 292 jihadi suspects linked to IS will be tried for plans to kill Egyptian president, Saudi crown prince.} Cairo, Egypt \u2014 Egypt will try 292 jihadist suspects linked to the Islamic State over plots to assassinate President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and the Saudi crown prince and attacks in the Sinai Peninsula, a prosecution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2752],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-the-times-of-israel"],"bylines":[{"id":2752,"name":"The Times of Israel","slug":"the-times-of-israel","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2752,"name":"The Times of Israel","slug":"the-times-of-israel","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30465"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}