How HITLER is helping ISIS: Jihadis dig up Nazi mines buried in Egypt during WWII to boost their arsenal of deadly explosivesBy KEILIGH BAKER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 15:49 EST, 10 August 2016
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3733773/Jihadis-dig-Nazi-mines-buried-Egypt-World-War-Two.html- ISIS and other jihadis are using landmines from World War Two
- They are burying for Nazi and Allied bombs abandoned in the desert
- Then use the components to create crude bombs and IEDs
- Egypt is home to more than 23million landmines, many left over from the war and the Battle of El Alamein which fought for control of North Africa
ISIS and other jihadi groups have been digging up landmines and bombs buried by the Nazis during World War Two in order to boost their weapons arsenals.
Egypt is thought to be home to more than 20 per cent of the total number of landmines in the world, with a massive swathe of land affected - some estimates put the total at about 15500 square miles.
The landmines were planted between 1940 and 1943 during the battles involving Britain and its allies, including Egyptian forces, fighting German and Italian forces for control of North Africa.
As a result Egypt is believed to be the most landmine contaminated country in world - with an estimated 23million landmines buried in the desert and surrounding areas.
Of those, 17.5million were buried during the Second World War which saw Germany's Afrika Korps battle against Britain's 8th Army in the Battle of El Alamein for control of North Africa.
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