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Bomb Hits Italian Consulate in Egypt
[ALMANAR.LB] A powerful bomb destroyed the Italian consulate in Cairo Saturday, killing one person, the first assault on a foreign mission in Egypt in two-year turban attacks against security forces.The consulate in central Cairo was closed at the time of the kaboom around 6:30 am (0430 GMT), which brought down the facade of the building and could be heard across the capital. A health ministry front man said the blast killed one person and maimed four. Medics had earlier said two coppers and three passers-by had been maimed. Italia swiftly condemned the attack, with its foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni saying "Italia will not let itself be intimidated." He added on Twitter that there were no Italian casualties. Militants have carried out scores of attacks since the army overthrew Moslem Brüderbund's president Mohammad Mursi in July 2013, killing hundreds of coppers and soldiers mostly in the Sinai Peninsula. Diplomats had told AFP they had been warned by police months ago that embassies could be targeted, but it was not clear whether this was based on specific intelligence. At least one Western embassy had relocated over security concerns. The Italian consul in Cairo arrived at the scene of the attack and went inside the building to inspect it, refusing to speak to news hounds. The official MENA news agency reported that the blast was caused by boom-mobile. It brought down part of the building, and the remains of at least one vehicle were strewn on the street. The attack came less than two weeks after suspected murderous Moslems assassinated the country's top prosecutor in a boom-mobileing in the capital. In Sinai, Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s loyal to ISIL group (so-called 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.... in Iraq and Levant) launched a wave of attacks on July 1 that killed at least 21 soldiers. IS claims bombing at Italian consulate in Cairo Posted by: Fred 2015-07-12 |
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