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Report: Security Services Seize Document Detailing Islamists’ Plan to Conquer Egypt and Restore Caliphate

Nov. 14, 2012 7:37am Sharona Schwartz

Al Arabiya is reporting that Egyptian security services recently found a document that’s been making the rounds among militant Islamist groups in the country, and it describes a plan to “conquer” Egypt and restore the Islamic caliphate. The plan allegedly includes bombings, harassment of the Christian community and the assassination of key public figures including the Egyptian president and the Coptic Christian pope.

Al Arabiya reports:

The document, entitled the “Conquest of Egypt,” was handwritten by a militant called Karim Ahmed Bedeiwi, who was killed in a recent police raid on a flat in the district of Nasr City in eastern Cairo.

The flat was reportedly was used as a weapons warehouse and the headquarters of a terrorist cell, security sources were quoted as saying by the online version of the Egyptian newspaper al-Wafd.

This document, the sources added, was distributed among 22 jihadist cells that operate under an umbrella group, which later came to be known as the Nasr City cell, and together form an intricate terrorist network that connects Cairo to other Egyptian governorates.

The “Conquest of Egypt” offers a detailed account of a plan by militant Islamists to seize power in Egypt and establish an Islamic caliphate.

Al Arabiya – a Saudi-owned news site and television station based in the United Arab Emirates – writes that the megalomaniacal plan aimed to pit Egyptian against Egyptian, specifically targeting the Christian minority.

It’s unclear why the groups were interested in assassinating President Mohammed Morsi who represents the Muslim Brotherhood and its religious and conservative worldview.

Thousands of ultraconservative Egyptian Muslims took to the streets Friday demanding the country’s new constitution be based on Sharia law, but for the extremists circulating the document, a public demonstration is apparently not an effective enough means to ensure the nation be ruled under Islamic law. Al Arabiya reports:

The document mentions a series of steps that need to be taken to achieve their goal to “conquer,” they include assassinating the president, the Coptic pope, and several political and security figures.

This plan would coincide with a series of simultaneous bombings in several vital establishments as well as the Suez Canal, while main roads between Cairo and other Egyptian governorates and communication networks are to be taken over by the militants.

The plan also revealed that in addition to the Pope, the militants were going to target the Coptic community in general whether by assassinating and abducting prominent Coptic figures or carrying out terrorist operations in areas densely populated by Copts or known as their favorite gathering places.

The 22 cells were reportedly in possession of advanced weaponry and explosives smuggled from the Sinai Peninsula and Libya.

Editor’s note: This news sheds new light on that Glenn Beck prediction (that was mocked) about an Islamic Caliphate in Egypt, doesn’t it?

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Comments (38)

Mulder1
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 5:03pm
Beck was right! This is the result of the Arab Spring – Islamic theocracies all over North Africa. Muslims don’t want Democracy, they want to live under barbaric Sharia law. We should stop all Muslim immigration into the USA as Muslims do not share our values or culture.

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Arlen Williams
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:43am
Ms. Schwartz, it is unfortunate and perhaps journalistically lazy? to throw up the term “conservative” to describe Islamists, Jihadis.

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- DetroitGunClinger
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:38pm
  I have to disagree with you here. The word “conservative” in a means you want to preserve governing institutions and social institutions as they were in the past. When an American describes himself as a “conservative,” he wishes to “conserve” the American traditions of liberty, natural rights, and individualism. When the Egyptians are described as conservative, the term means that they wish to conserve the Egyptian institutions as they were in the past under the great Islamic empires a.k.a Sharia. Both uses of “conservative” are correct, but the desires of the two groups being described as “conservative” couldn’t be further apart. This is why when the uninformed liberals hear “conservative” applied to us, they are unable to see how it is different than when someone like the jihadis are described as “conservative.” To understand what “conservative” really means, you have to look at it in the context of what society the conservative individual comes from.
  
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Individualism
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:22am
if that is what they want let them have it.

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BlackCrow
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:09am
Kill ‘em all and let Allah sort them out!

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- WillG
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:27am
  I am right there with you.
  
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- J@ck_KvK
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:29am
  And the blood of the innocent killed through your genocide be on your hands.
  
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- WillG
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:38am
  They surrendered their innocence by practicing their Vile Belief System.
  
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Arc
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:17am
Caliphate???? hmmmm where have I heard that before. Oh Yes, Mr Beck Outstanding Glenn!!!!!!

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momrules
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:43am
The Caliphate, ushering in the Mahdi, is the goal of more that just these zealots in Egypt. It is the common goal of Islam.
I found this article quite interesting.

http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/11/01/nuclear-iran-seeks-apocalyptic-holy-man/

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- IndiscriminatenessAnEpidemic
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:10am
  Brilliant perspective in that article you posted. What resonates is that the secular left will eventually be at odds with the Sharia Law Muslims. In fact radical muslims already disapprove of the secular left, but the secular left refused to acknowledge it. Their refusal is childish and is largely driven by their desire to make certain that there are no behaviors, philosophies, or religions that are better than any others. The political correctness that I first saw in high school 20+ years ago was really a difference of opinion is all and could be tolerated as a nuisance. This philosophy today, which dominates the Democrat Party and most of Western Europe is dangerous and is accelerating. Today’s Modern Liberal believes that if we could just get to the point where all lifestyles are considered the same, all religions(which means the elimination of them), no borders, then we’d return to Utopia. Think of John Lennon’s song “imagine.” This when all of this started in the 60s. The hippies and their children dominate our schools, media, and our government and they run it much the same as my 5 year old boy would, like children.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:31am
  @momrules….is there really such an animal as a “moral liberal”?
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Txannie………go back to the link and click on ABOUT. There is an explanation there that I had to read myself to understand it.
  
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- ThatsJustCrazyTalk
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 1:59pm
  That’s a mor mon site. Did you look under scriptures? The about section is nice, but…
  
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Booberry
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:40am
marybethelizabeth – why do you post when you do not know? This article states the ‘Coptic Pope’ — here’s your lesson for today – that is not the Catholic Pope! The Coptic Pope was chosen a short while ago, lives in Egypt and his name is Tawadros. Why do you leftists insist on announcing your ignorance?

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:46am
  Mary like all idiot leftists prove their idiocy every time they open their mouths or post on a blog. They can’t help themselves,they have to prove it daily.
  
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momrules
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:28am
No matter how hate filled a Muslim can get there will always be another one that will top him in the *let’s hate even more* department.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:22am
Mr Obama congratulations once again, due to your sheer incompetency and uttermost madness you have guaranteed the return of the Caliphate: may God have mercy on your soul traitor.

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- texashuntre
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:20am
  I don’t believe God is going to show much mercy when it comes to him Snow..
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:19am
Too bad Mubarak didn’t exterminate the MB years ago,now the Egyptians will have to live under the oppression of the lunatics in the MB. The MB should thank their friend and ally in the oval office for putting them in power.

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nurseheidi
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:09am
Hmmm, divide people, discredit those that have some power and harrass Christians. Who wrote the doc? Obama?

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- D-Fence
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:17am
  lol
  
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ares338
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:03am
No news here. Every Islamist goal everywhere is to conquer something. Chopping heads and various body parts and they go merrily along their way. Oh yeah..Don’t forget enslaving women. What nice folks!

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GuruMeditation
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:56am
I think most of us already had that figured out without the help of the Security Services. And it’s not just Egypt.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:56am
How’s that Arab-Friggin-Spring grabbin’ ya now, Baraaaaack?

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- Chromo200
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 9:15am
  Sorry Ron .. Barack has not been briefed on this and will not for at least another three weeks. He will be kept in the dark until they find a patsy.
  
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poorrichard09
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:53am
By the looks of things, I’d say they are well on the way to reaching their goal!

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NoMoMrNiceGuy
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:50am
It is always nicw when you can say “I Told You So”

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RightUnite
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:48am
Wait a minute!! Don’t they ALREADY HAVE CONTROL OF EGYPT??

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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:58am
  You suddenly realized that Mr. Beck has been lying to you.
  
  Thanks for actually thinking and not just reacting.
  
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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:29am
  @MARY
  
  How did Glenn Beck lie? He has been saying for how long now that they want sharia law and the caliphate to rule, and that it all started with Egypt. Maybe is you actually listened to him rather than just blindly saying he knows nothing you may learn something. You’re just another closed minded liberal who most likely gets your news from BSNBC and Jon Stewart.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:45am
  The lie is like you said , ” it all started with Egypt”,
  
  and it hasn’t started, as the article above attests.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:55am
  Endspend! MaryMeth is on ludes, she doesn’t watch, listen to, read, or for that matter, know anything about Glen Beck! Berating him, and us, somehow makes her feel better about herself! She is just a tofu blob, mired in an inconsequential existence! Cut her some spinach!!!
  
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freenj
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:48am
Watch out Europe you could be next?

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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 7:59am
  The Pope lives in Europe.
  
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- freenj
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:24am
  And your point Mary, is?
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:50am
  Just pointing out that this story, at best, is based on a poor translation, referring to the Coptic pope and then to the Pope.
  
  Of course it doesn’t really make any difference what the article says as long as a sensational headline can be made up about it.
  
  Theblaze should consider saving bandwidth and dispensing with the articles all together.
  
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- searcher619
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:58am
  Marybeth:
  
  Are you applying to be The Blaze’s resident Troll?
  
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