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On July 24, 2012, the jihadi group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, about which little is known, released a video documenting its multiple attacks against Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel. The pipeline, which has been attacked over a dozen times since 2011, has been the center of a politico-economic debate between the countries. These attacks, it should be noted, were hailed on at least two separate occasions by Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
The message of the new video, titled "If You Return [to Sin], We Will Return [to Punishment]," is clearly anti-SCAF (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces), which the group accuses of being largely responsible for upholding the Egyptian-Israeli gas agreement, through which Israel bought Egyptian gas at below-market price. This, the group says, lead to millions of dollars in lost revenue that Egypt could have otherwise spent rebuilding its own economy. Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis says the SCAF's claims last month of stopping the gas supply to Israel were a mere political maneuver aimed at winning support in the elections then being held.
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