25 Egyptian police officers were killed in an armed attack in the northern Sinai on Monday 08/19/2013, in one of the bloodiest clashes with Egyptian security forces in years. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that “during continued terrorist crimes in the Sinai and the Nile by police performing their duty, a number of recruits belonging to the central security sector were victims of an armed attack.”

The statement said that the attack took place “after returning from a break”. Security sources confirmed that the gunmen attacked the police “with rocket-propelled grenades (RPG)” targeting “two buses carrying police officers near the city of Sheikh Zowaid in northern Sinai.”

Although we condemn the killing of these recruits from the sons of Egypt in a criminal act rejected by our faultless Islamic legislation, we emphasize our rejection of the official version which blames Islamic organizations described as “terroristic”, since we have become accustomed to the lies from the official media in the country. Therefore we say:

1. In Sinai for nearly two months a massive security operation has been taking place. How did the killing of such a number of recruits in the face of toughened security measures in the Sinai occur so easily?

2. There are conflicting accounts of the incident: One stating that the policemen were killed by an RPG shell, while the other stating that they were intercepted by gunmen driving two “cruise” cars who forced them to get off the microbuses they were riding and afterwards killed them. Which account is to be believed?

3. What we know is that soldiers usually return to their camps in military uniforms. The pictures of the dead that were aired show the soldiers in civilian clothes. What is the explanation for that? Perhaps the explanation is what the Sawarka tribe leader as the Sinai explained. He said that the dead soldiers were detained in Safa site, because they refused to shoot at the marching demonstrators two days prior. He added that these soldiers were discharged because they refused to shoot at citizens; hence al-Sisi executes the honourable in the army and places a large number from the military leaders under house arrest.

4. At-Tahrir Channel affiliated with the chorus of corrupt media, which is driven by the coup and controlled by them, earlier had broadcasted information about the incident quoting broadcaster Ahmed Musa and a former state security officer. They claimed that the number of assassinators was “11 terrorists” who attacked the soldiers, who first chained and then killed them. This is another contrasting account casting doubt!

5. In all cases, we condemn the killings currently occurring throughout Egypt, and we hold responsible the Sisi faction who is the de facto ruler of the country. From these killings was the criminal liquidation and murder of 38 prisoners in the custody of security while being deported to prison. The official account of this incident, stating that they died from suffocation by gas hurled by guards who attempted to prevent their escape, is rejected. Especially since pictures of the victims have shown clear signs of torture and burns on their bodies. Therefore it was a clear process of liquidation out of revenge.

Murder is a great sin, and we in Hizb ut Tahrir denounce it and dissociate ourselves to Allah from everyone who commits it, or instigates it, or rejoices in it.

حدثنا عبد الله بن عمر قال رأيت رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم يطوف بالكعبة ويقول ما أطيبك وأطيب ريحك ما أعظمك وأعظم حرمتك والذي نفس محمد بيده لحرمة المؤمن أعظم عند الله حرمة منك

Abdulla ibn Umar said – I saw the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم doing tawwaf around the Ka’aba saying “How sweet/ good are you and how sweet is your scent. How great are you and how great is your sanctity. By the One who the soul of Mohammad is in His Hand the sanctity of a believer is greater with Allah than your sanctity” (Ibn Maja)

We reiterate in saying, the issue of this Ummah will not be resolved except by what it was resolved initially: a rightly guided Khilafah that unites the Muslim lands under one state that gathers the Muslims onto the Haqq (Truth) and stops their bloodshed. A rightly guided Khaleefah that leads the Muslims to fight their enemy instead of killing one another, a strong God-fearing Khaleefah that leads them to eradicate the Jewish entity and fully restore Palestine into the lands of Islam. A Khaleefah that breaks the back of America, its allies and followers, such that neither Obama nor the wicked Europeans dare to stretch their arms, not even their fingers, towards the slightest bit of Egyptian land, lest they will be amputated… Only then will Egypt return to greatness with its Islam, strong with its sons, rich in its resources, throwing the poisoned aids down America’s throat. Then it will return to its initial state of being a solid Islamic fortress, recruiting its soldiers for jihad and the opening of lands for Islam, spreading goodness in all four directions of the earth, as this is not mighty over Allah.

مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا

“On account of that. So We decreed for the tribe of Israel that if someone kills another person – unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth – it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers came to them with Clear Signs but even after that many of them committed outrages in the earth.”

(Al-Maida, 5:32)

Sharif Zayed

Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah of Egypt

Tuesday, 13th Shawwal 1434 AH

20/08/2013 CE

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