The terrorist group that prompted the Canadian government to close its embassy in Cairo last week, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, is a relative newcomer among the Middle East’s seemingly endless supply of armed Islamist factions. But a newly-declassified Canadian intelligence report says it has already become “one of the biggest current terrorist threats,” and according to a government source it will soon be added to Ottawa’s list of outlawed terrorist entities. “We are very well aware of this group and the process with regards to the listing has begun some time ago,” the source said of the Egyptian jihadist faction,...
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