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| 48 referred to military court for involvement in Egypt's Palm Sunday deadly bombings | ||
| 2017-05-22 | ||
| [AlAhram] Egypt's general prosecution referred on Sunday 48 defendants to military court on charges of involvement in three recent deadly church bombings in Egypt, according to a statement by Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek. The accused are also charged with being members of terrorist cells, affiliation with 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, and manufacturing weapons and explosives, among other charges, the statement reads. The defendants are accused of being involved in the December 2016 suicide kaboom on St Peter's Church in Cairo that killed 29 worshippers, as well as the two Palm Sunday suicide kabooms in April 2017 that killed 46 people at two Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria. The Palm Sunday bombings, which were claimed by the Islamic State turban group, were the deadliest attacks on Copts in the country's recent history. One day following April attacks, the interior ministry said that police had killed seven members of a terrorist cell connected to the bombings in a shootout in Upper Egypt's Assiut governorate. A three-month state of emergency was declared by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on the day of the church attacks.
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