Associated Press
CAIRO--An Egyptian militant organization allied with Islamic
State has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American oil
worker.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which now refers to itself as the Sinai
Province, said on its official Twitter account late Sunday that it
killed William Henderson. It published pictures of his passport and
two identification cards. It didn't say when or how it killed
him.
The passport said he was a 58-year-old from Texas and his
identification cards said he worked for Texas-based energy company
Apache Corp. and Qarun Petroleum Co., a joint venture with
Egypt.
Apache said in August that one of its supervisors had been
killed in an apparent carjacking in Egypt's Western Desert. The
company didn't identify the man.
The Enid News & Eagle in northwestern Oklahoma published an
obituary for a man named William Henderson in August, saying he had
"passed suddenly" while working in Egypt. It said he had worked for
Apache for 28 years and was 58 when he died.
The U.S. embassy declined to comment on the militant group's
claim, and Apache couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a Sinai-based jihadist group, has carried
out scores of attacks mainly targeting Egyptian security forces,
particularly since the July 2013 overthrow of Islamist President
Mohammed Morsi. Last month it pledged allegiance to Islamic State,
which controls vast swaths of Syria and Iraq.
In a separate statement late Sunday, the Egyptian group claimed
to have carried out more than 10 attacks in the past four weeks. It
said it blew up six army and police armored vehicles, killed seven
police officers and conscripts, and demolished the house of a man
accused of being a spy for the army.
The northern part of the Sinai Peninsula has been under a state
of emergency since the group attacked an army checkpoint in
October, killing 31 soldiers.
Copyright 2014 Associated Press
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