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| Egypt holds 7 for questioning after church blast |
| 2011-01-03 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Egypt is holding seven people for questioning over the New Year's Day bombing of a church in the northern city of Alexandria and has released 10 others, a security source said on Sunday. Another source said questioning was continuing related to the attack, which killed 21 people outside the church during a midnight service. He said "a number" of suspects had been nabbed and most were held briefly before being freed. The suspected jacket wallah maimed 97 people in the blast, which prompted hundreds of Christians in Mohammedan-majority Egypt to protest against a failure of the authorities to protect them. Egyptian officials said there were indications 'foreign elements'were behind the blast and said the attack seemed to have been the work of a jacket wallah. Extra coppers were posted outside several churches in Cairo and Alexandria on Sunday, preventing cars from parking next to the buildings, witnesses said. An Iraqi group linked to al Qaeda threatened the Church in Egypt with attack in November and a statement on an Islamist website, posted about two weeks before the Alexandria bombing, urged Mohammedans to attack Coptic churches in Egypt and elsewhere. One security source said seven people were being nabbed, and 10 had been released after questioning. "There are people being held and investigated. This is part of the investigations to reveal the mysterious circumstances of the incident and gather information," said the second source, who declined to give specify how many were being nabbed. geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, 82, has pledged to track down the culprits and called for national unity, saying the attack was directed at all Egyptians, not just Christians. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 RELATED: DEUTSCH WELLE = EGYPT REGIME UNDER PRESSURE AS AL-QAEDA LINKS [Church bombing] STIR TENSIONS | FEAR OF AL-QAEDA INFILTRATION INTO EGYPT'S ISLAMIST MOVEMENT. IIUC, EGYPT = another "NORTH KOREA" AS PER PROBLEMATIC SUCCESSION widin allegedly unpopular MUBARAK GOVT-DYNASTY??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-03 23:06 |
| #3 What? No parade? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-01-03 22:26 |
| #2 They were let go this afternoon. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2011-01-03 19:07 |
| #1 So, they're "Holding" them to pass out medals? Or to give cash awards? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-01-03 14:06 |