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Bodies of Copts killed by Daesh on Libyan beach ‘will be returned to Egypt’
[ARABNEWS] The remains of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS Egypt’s state-run al-Ahram newspaper quoted a senior Libyan official as saying that DNA taken from the bodies of the victims had been handed over to Egypt’s top prosecutor so they could be matched with samples from the victims’ families. Al-Seddik al-Sur, director of the attorney general’s office, reportedly told a presser: "Libyan authorities will repatriate the remains of the martyred Copts to Egypt." He did not specify a date for their repatriation. Twenty-one Coptic Christians working in Libya had their heads chopped off by ISIS The case shocked Egypt and underlined the turbans’ growing reach across the Middle East and North Africa. Twenty of the victims were found to be Egyptian, while one of them was of unknown African nationality. Reports said he was Ghanaian. Soon after carrying out the killings ISIS posted a graphic video of the incident, vowing to fight those they described as "crusaders." Dressed in orange overalls, the Copts were forced to the ground and then decapitated by the masked, knife-wielding murderous Moslems. The horrific footage prompted Egypt to launch retaliatory  s against ISIS affiliates in Libya, a country that has been mired in turmoil since a popular uprising backed by a NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led military intervention in 2011 toppled leader Muammar Qadaffy ...Proof that a madman with money will be politely received for at least 42 years until his people get tired of him and kill him... . "Our deaders can finally lay to rest now, in their home country," Samir Girgis, a Cairo-based Coptic accountant, told Arab News. Most of the victims came from the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt. Posted by: Fred 2018-03-16 |
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