{"id":1343,"date":"2014-11-10T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2014-11-10T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:35:45","slug":"egypt-armed-group-pledges-allegiance-to-isil-middle-east-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Egypt armed group pledges allegiance to ISIL &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/11\/egypt-armed-group-pledges-allegiance-isil-2014111062135628610.html\">Egypt armed group pledges allegiance to ISIL &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt&#8217;s Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the country&#8217;s most active armed group, pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, in a recording posted on its Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>If genuine, the declaration of allegiance would be a boost for ISIL which has changed its name to Islamic State, showing its widening influence in the region alongside its territorial advances in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We announce our pledge of allegiance to the caliph Ibrahim Ibn Awad &#8230; to listen and obey,&#8221; the audio recording said, referring to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio clip, which is 9 minutes and 26 seconds in length, the Sinai-based armed group also urged Muslims around the world to follow suit and support ISIL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your unity is strength and your division is weakness\u2026 Determine your fate, unite among yourself, and support your [Islamic] State,&#8221; the recording said.<\/p>\n<p>Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which means Partisans of Jerusalem, had previously expressed support for ISIL, but stopped short of pledging its allegiance before Monday, even denying it last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt armed group pledges allegiance to ISIL &#8211; Middle East &#8211; Al Jazeera English. Egypt&#8217;s Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the country&#8217;s most active armed group, pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, in a recording posted on its Twitter account. If genuine, the declaration of allegiance would be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[250,445,447],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-egypt","tag-isil","tag-islamic-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}