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One Dead in Cairo Bombings
[AnNahar] One person was killed Thursday in a bombing outside a pizzeria in the Egyptian capital as other blasts hit a cop shoppe and offices of cell phone companies, a health official said.The bomb tore off the legs of the victim who was pronounced dead in hospital, health ministry front man Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told AFP. Two other people were maimed. The restaurant was next to a branch of the Britannia-based cell phone provider Vodafone. Two other bombs targeted its offices in another neighborhood and a third bomb went off outside a branch of United Arab Emirates-owned Etisalat, damaging the store fronts but causing no casualties, interior ministry front man Hany Abdel Latif told AFP. The offices were closed at the time of the kabooms. Hours later, an kaboom outside a cop shoppe in the north of the capital maimed a police conscript and three passersby, police officials said. It was not immediately clear why the cell phone companies were targeted, but Abdel Latif said authorities had been on the alert for attacks in the runup to parliamentary elections next month. Militants have set off dozens of bombs in the capital since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 and cracked down on his supporters, killing hundreds of protesters in street festivities. Most of the bombs have been rudimentary and caused no casualties. But several have killed coppers, including two senior officers killed while attempting to defuse bombs planted outside the presidential palace in June last year. Those bombs, and several others that killed coppers in Cairo, were claimed by the Ajnad Misr bully boy group. In the Sinai Peninsula where they are based, Death Eaters who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group have killed scores of soldiers and coppers since Morsi's overthrow. The Islamic State affiliate in Sinai set up branches in the Nile Delta, targeting police headquarters in Cairo and other cities before police potted and jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! most of their operatives last year. Jihadists, who have focused their attacks on security forces, were also believed to be planning attacks on the embassies of countries that have backed the former army chief and now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, officials have said. Sisi was elected to office in May 2014 pledging to eradicate the bully boys, but has had limited success, especially in the Sinai where they are waging an insurgency. In January, simultaneous boom-mobileings and mortar attacks on security headquarters in the peninsula killed at least 30 people, most of them soldiers. In October, Death Eaters set off a truck bomb at a military checkpoint in the Sinai and then raided it, killing at least 30 soldiers and seizing heavy weapons. The military has launched an unprecedented campaign in the rugged peninsula that borders Israel and the Gazoo Strip, deploying thousands of troops and carrying out repeated helicopter strikes against the bully boys. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-02-27 |
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