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Egypt’s prosecution detains 3 suspects in church bombing investigation
 [AlAhram] Egypt's prosecution detained three alleged members of a terrorist cell on Sunday as part of investigations into the bombing of two churches on Palm Sunday that left dozens killed and injured.The three suspects will be detained for 15 days pending investigations into their involvement in the terrorist attacks. On 9 April, two suicide kabooms hit St George's Cathedral in Tanta and St Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria, killing 46 people and injuring dozens in the deadliest attack on Copts in the country's recent history. The attacks were timed to take place on Palm Sunday, at the start of Holy Week, in the run up to Easter, thereby ensuring large-scale casualties. 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.... (IS) group grabbed credit for the attacks, naming the Alexandria jacket wallah as Abu Isaac al-Masry and the Tanta suicide bomber as Abu al-Baraa al-Masry. One day following the attacks, the interior ministry said that police had killed seven members of a terrorist cell in a shootout in Upper Egypt's Assiut governorate. The three men detained on Sunday are being investigated on suspicion of joining an illegal group that calls for disobeying authority and overthrowing the state, as well as attacking Christian citizens and their places of worship. The three suspects are also accused of conducting a terrorist attack in January on a security checkpoint in New Valley governorate, leaving eight coppers dead. The interior ministry said at the time that the checkpoint attack was executed by 12 bad boys, two of whom were killed by the police during the attack. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-17 |
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