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Africa North
Egypt files murder charges against man held for Coptic church attack
2018-01-03
[Ynet] Egypt's public prosecutor has filed murder charges against a man accused of killing 11 people in an attack on a Coptic church and a Christian-owned shop in a Cairo suburb last week, judicial sources said.

The man, placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
after the Dec. 29 attack, was receiving medical treatment in jug for injuries sustained in an exchange of gunfire with authorities outside the church. The prosecutor ordered him detained pending investigations, the sources said.
This would be Ibrahim Ismail Mostafa, one assumes.
"He is accused of premeditated murder, attempted murder, possession of an unlicensed weapon and using it for terrorist activity," a judicial source said.

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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
grabbed credit for the attacks shortly afterwards, in a statement carried out by its Amaq news agency, though it provided no evidence for the claim.
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