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Wikipedia Evaluating Articles and Sources
For the first articles, I picked the one about "Terrorism." I was not able to really find anything wrong with this article. For the other section I chose to evaluate "Abimael Guzman". There was a section about his capture that was not verified by any sources at all, so those facts seemed to be slightly unreliable. I went and found an old news article that supported some of the story that was being told so that credibility could be gained for that section. There were a lot of missing references to back up facts in this article.

= Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula = Al-Qaeda, Arabic al-Qāᶜidah (“the Base”), in Sinai Peninsula, or AQSP, is an Egyptian militant jihadist organization possibly formed by a merger between al-Qaeda operatives in Sinai and Ansar al Jihad. It is the branch of the Al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula.

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Origins
Declaration of existence in the summer of 2011 outside of a mosque in Al Arish. Was this declaration made by al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula, or was it made by what we now know as Ansar al-Jihad in the Sinai Peninsula?

Connected Groups
Ansar al-Jihad in the Sinai Peninsula. This organization serves as the military arm of al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula. This organization is led by Ramzi Mowafi and has been responsible for multiple attacks on Egyptian and Israeli targets.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad was formed in the 1970s, but later aligned itself with al-Qaeda in June of 2011. In 2005, they were designated by the United States State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

The Mujahideen Shura Council, not related to the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq, is located in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and is also known to be linked with al-Qaeda. After an attack in June of 2012, the MSC called the attack "a gift" to Ayman al-Zawahiri and their al-Qaeda "brothers." The MSC is one of four known organizations that are linked with al-Qaeda and operating in Gaza.

Jund al-Sharia is yet another group present in the Sinai Peninsula. They do not appear to necessarily be linked directly with al-Qaeda, but since they are located in the same proximity and share enemies, it can be assumed that they have communicated in some way. They announced their formation on August 1, 2012, demanding that Islamic law be established in Egypt and US Peacekeeping forces be removed from the area.

Mohammed Eid Muslih Hamad
Mohammed Eid Muslih Hamad, also known to some as “El Tihi,” is one of the earliest known leaders of Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula. Before his arrest in November of 2011, he was allegedly involved in terror attacks on Egyptian police forces, a bombing of a pipeline that runs from Egypt to Jordan and Israel, and an attack in southern Israel.

Ramzi Mowafi
Ramzi Mowafi, commonly referred to as “The Chemist,” is thought to be either the leader of Ansar al-Jihad (the alleged military arm of AQSP) or of the entire Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula organization. Mowafi was known to be Osama bin Laden's personal physician and also a chemical weapons and explosive expert for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. In January of 2011, he escaped from the Wadi el-Natrun prison in Egypt where he was being held on unknown charges for life. In August 2011, he was spotted training a number of people in military tactics. On October 21, 2013, Mowafi was named to the United States State Department's terrorist designation list.

Other Commanders
Some other known commanders of AQSP are the following:
 * Hisham Ali Ashmawi, leader of Jamaat al-Murabiteen
 * Muhammad Jamal al Kashef, leader of Mohammed Jamal network
 * Muhammad al-Zawahiri, senior operative(alleged), and brother of Al-Qaeda's general Emir, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
 * Sheikh ‘Adel Shehato, one of the leaders of Nasr city cell

Notable Attacks
June 18, 2012: MSC; IED attack inside Israel territory: Workers were securing the Israeli border with Egypt, when one of their construction vehicles became a target for an IED.

August 5, 2012: Jund; Overran Egyptian base and killed 16 soldiers; made it half a mile inside Israeli territory before they were stopped. The terrorists were killed by the Israeli Air Force and soldiers.

September 25, 2012: Unnamed jihadist group; attack on international troops at a base in the Egyptian Sinai. The terrorists breached the perimeter and wounded four soldiers in the attack. Reportedly, before they exited, the attackers hoisted a black al-Qaeda flag over the base.