Islam Times - Egyptian militant group says it killed US oil worker

Islam Times - Egyptian militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has pledged allegiance to the Takfiri ISIL terrorists, has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American oil worker in Egypt.

The militant group, which operates in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, said on its Twitter account on Sunday that it had killed William Henderson.

The group published pictures of Henderson’s passport and two identification cards, but did not mention when or how it killed him.

According to the passport and the identification cards, the 58-year-old American was from Texas and worked for Texas-based energy company Apache Corp. and Qarun Petroleum Co.

Earlier in August, Apache had said that one of its supervisors had been killed in an apparent carjacking in the Western Desert in Egypt. However, the company did not identify the man.

On Sunday, a court in Egypt designated as terrorist the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which has killed scores of Egyptian soldiers and police forces.

The decision to label the militant group as a terrorist organization was made after Ahmed Ibrahim, a lawyer at the Nedal Center for Rights, filed a lawsuit urging a ban on the Takfiri ISIL and any group affiliated with it in Egypt.

The ISIL militants control large areas across northern and western Iraq as well as eastern Syria. The militants have been carrying out horrific acts of violence, including public decapitations, against Iraqi communities.