After a meeting with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), El-Sisi issued a decree naming Chief of Staff Osama Roshdy as head of the unit, which will deal with terrorist threats in parts of Egypt to the east of Suez – including the restive Sinai Peninsula.
Roshdy has been promoted to lieutenant-general.
He was born in 1957 in the governorate of Daqahlia in the Nile Delta. He graduated from the military faculty in 1970 and joined the infantry.
He has an MA in military sciences and is married with three children.
Scores of Egyptian soldiers were killed in coordinated militant attacks in North Sinai on Thursday night. An exact death toll has not been confirmed by military officials, but media reports suggest at least 30 died in the attacks, including a number of civilians.
Speaking about the death toll, Tariq Khater, undersecretary for North Sinai in the health ministry, told Ahram Online that only the military can issue an official death toll.
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Egypt faces a long and difficult battle with militants, the country's president has said, in his first remarks since a deadly attack in the Sinai region...
ReplyDeleteAbdul Fatah al-Sisi spoke a day after a group linked to Islamic State said it killed at least 32 soldiers and police.
"This battle will be difficult, strong, evil and will take a long time," he said in comments broadcast on state TV.
Mr Sisi cut short a visit to an African Union summit to return to Egypt in the wake of the Sinai attack.
On Saturday morning he chaired a meeting of the country's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf).
Reports say he ended the meeting by issuing a presidential decree to form a new military command for Sinai with the aim of tackling the growing militant threat..............http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31074002
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