Egypt Car Bomb Kills 14 As Muslim Brotherhood Branded 'Terrorists'
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has been branded a terror group by the country's prime minister after a car bomb killed at least 14 people, ripping through a police headquarters.
The car bombing in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 70 miles north of Cairo, is said to have killed mostly police officers, and wounded more than 100 people.
Egyptians gather after a powerful explosion believed to be caused by a car bomb rocked a police headquarters
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, which came a day after an al-Qaida-inspired group called on police and army personnel to desert or face death at the hands of its fighters, AP reported.
Egypt Car Bomb Kills 14 As Muslim Brotherhood Branded 'Terrorists'
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has been branded a terror group by the country's prime minister after a car bomb killed at least 14 people, ripping through a police headquarters.
The car bombing in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 70 miles north of Cairo, is said to have killed mostly police officers, and wounded more than 100 people.
Egyptians gather after a powerful explosion believed to be caused by a car bomb rocked a police headquarters
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, which came a day after an al-Qaida-inspired group called on police and army personnel to desert or face death at the hands of its fighters, AP reported.
Egypt Prime Minister Declares Muslim Brotherhood A “Terrorist Organization”
The declaration came after a blast at an Interior Ministry building in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura killed at least 14 people and injured 120 others.
Egypt’s Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi speaks during a news conference in Abu Dhabi in November. Reuters
A deadly explosion rocked a security building in Egypt Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 120 others. Egypt’s state-run MENA news agency reported there was a blast on the top floor of the building followed by a car bomb on the street below at 1:10 a.m. local time.
FILE -- Dec. 10, 2013. A restoration expert works on a mosaic inside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. To visitors arriving in Bethlehem for Christmas this year the Nativity Church will look different. Wrapped in scaffolding, the basilica is having a much-needed facelift after 600 years. Last year it has been included in UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage sites. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Is there a “War on Christmas”? The bigger question is about a war on Christians.
Radical Islamist preacher fails to condemn Lee Rigby murder
Radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary.PA
Radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has declined to condemn the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, insisting Prime Minister David Cameron and British foreign policy were to blame for the murder.
The former leading member of banned extremist organisation Al-Muhajiroun said he was "very proud" of killer Michael Adebolajo as "a practising Muslim and a family man", but "differed" with him about the interpretation of Islam which he used to justify the murder.
Egypt charges former president Morsi with sponsoring terrorism
Overthrown Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi is to stand trial on terror charges that carry the death penalty.
He has been accused of conspiring with the Palestinian group Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and others to carry out a campaign of violence in the Sinai Peninsula and beyond to destabilise the country following his removal.
Prosecutors claim that while he was president Mr Morsi and his aides revealed state secrets to the militant groups and to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He and 35 others, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s top three leaders, are also accused of sponsoring terrorism and carrying out combat training and other acts to undermine Egypt’s stability.
A smile... then a kiss of the Koran: Lee Rigby's distraught family leave court in tears after his Muslim killers show no remorse as they are found GUILTY of hacking him to death in London street
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale found guilty in 90 minutes
However the killers were cleared of attempted murder of police on May 22
Adebolajo kissed the Koran and smiled as verdicts were read to Old Bailey
Extremists had denied murder on the basis they were 'soldiers of Allah'
Lee Rigby's family say afterwards that justice has been done after trial
'No one should have to go through what we have been through as a family'
His mother Lyn said: 'Their aim was to divide, to cause conflict, to set people against each other. Lee's death has actually united people'
PM: 'The nation must confront poisonous narrative of extremism'
MI5 had contact with Adebolajo from 2010 up until he carried out killing
His brother Jeremiah says Lee Rigby's murder had 'obvious' justification
Adebolajo had admitted they executed the father-of-one but claimed they were not murderers because they are 'soldiers of Allah' at 'war' with Britain over its foreign policy.
The distraught family of Lee Rigby left court in tears today as one of his remorseless killers smiled and kissed the Koran after he was found guilty of his murder.
Muslim fanatic Michael Adebolajo, 28, made the incendiary gesture to the Old Bailey courtroom before he was taken down to the cells by prison guards.
Fusilier Rigby, 25, was 'mutilated, almost decapitated and murdered' by Michael Adebowale, 22, and Adebolajo, who ambushed him outside his barracks in Woolwich, South East London on May 22.
During their trial Lee Rigby's bereft family were forced to watch footage and hear gruesome accounts of the soldier being run down at 40mph and hacked to death in the street.
Growing Persecution of Egypt's Copts Highlighted at Congressional Hearing
(Photo: Flickr / Talk Radio News Service)
Since the Egyptian military overthrew Morsi, Coptic Christians have endured vandalism, destruction and murder with little or no police protection and assistance.
Highlighting escalation of attacks on Egypt's Copts, speakers at a congressional hearing this week expressed concerns over the Muslim Brotherhood making Christians the scapegoat for the Islamist group's political downfall.
EGYPT – High-profile convert detained for ‘inciting strife’
A well-known Christian campaigner for religious liberty, Mohammed Hegazy, has been detained in Egypt for allegedly inciting ‘sectarian strife’. Sources are concerned he may be tortured.
Hegazy, 31 – now widely known by his Christian name, Bishoy Armia Boulos – was arrested last Wednesday at a café in Minya, Upper Egypt. Security forces claimed he’d been working for a Christian satellite TV channel and contributing to a ‘false image’ that Christians in Minya are a target for violence.
Mohammed Hegazy, now with new name, jailed for allegedly inciting ‘sectarian strife.’
Priest examining damaged church building in Minya Governorate, Egypt. (Watani)
CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Egyptian authorities this week arrested a Christian who is arguably the nation’s most well-known convert from Islam and are investigating him for several activities, including allegedly inciting “sectarian strife.”
القبض على "بيشوي ارميا " احمد حجازى سابقا بعد اعتناقه المسيحية بتهمة التبشير فى المنيا !
يوسف وهيب
ألقت إدارة البحث الجنائي بالمنيا، بالاشتراك مع قطاع الأمن الوطني، القبض علي بيشوى ارميا او محمد حجازي ،الذي أعلن اعتناقه المسيحية منذ عدة سنوات و غير اسمه الى بيشوي ارميا، بتهمة العمل بمنظمات تبشيرية .
و كان اللواء أسامة متولي مساعد وزير الداخلية لأمن المنيا، تلقى اخطارا منذ يوم الاثنين ،من العميد هشام نصر مدير البحث الجنائي بورود معلومات لدى قطاع الأمن الوطني وضباط البحث الجنائي بقسم شرطة المنيا عن وجود مراسل قناة الطريق الفضائية الأمريكية التى وصفتها تحريات الامن الوطنى بانها وراء إثارة الفتن بين المسلمين والأقباط في المحافظة.
انتقل الرائد عمرو حسن رئيس مباحث بندر المنيا والنقيب أحمد مختار معاون المباحث، و القيا القبض على بيشوي أرميا بولس، 31 سنة، مراسل قناة الطريق الدينية التي يمتلكها أحد الأقباط بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، وبحوزته كاميرا و4 فلاشات، وبسؤاله أكد أنه اعتنق المسيحية منذ 16 عاما وقام بتغيير ديانته في البطاقة الشخصية، حيث كان يدعي محمد أحمد محمد حجازي، من مواليد محافظة بورسعيد، وحصل على شهادةكنسية بانه نال المعمودية و اصبح مسيحي الديانة ثم سافر لأمريكا.
يذكر أن "بيشوي " سافر إلى محافظة المنيا خلال أحداث 30 يونيو الماضي، وعمل بإحدى الجرائد الإقليمية في المحافظة، وسريعا ما كون عدة صداقات بشباب القوى السياسية والثورية، مما لفت الأنظار الأمنية إليه ، وبمراقبته تبين أنه اعتاد التردد على كافتيريا نقابة الزراعية الكائنة بوسط مدينة المنيا برفقة بعض الصحفيين
و فى اتصال هاتفى مع احد المقربين منه قال ، ان محاميه اكد لهم انه تم تلفيق جملة من القضايا اثنا تغطيته احداث قرية نزلة البدرمان بديرمواس و كانت معه صحفية من المنيا ، و احتك به الأمن وألقي القبض عليه و اضاف ، الان ننتظر موقف الذين يطنطنون بحقوق الانسان !
Egypt intelligence confirms Muslim Brotherhood ties with Al Qaida
Special to WorldTribune.com
CAIRO — For the first time, Egypt has linked the Muslim Brotherhood to Al Qaida.
The charred remains of an armored vehicle are loaded onto a truck after a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a police checkpoint that killed a police colonel in El Arish, Egypt on July 12, 2013. /AP/Muhammed Sabry
Officials said the intelligence community has determined cooperation between the Brotherhood and Al Qaida.
The officials said the Brotherhood was financing the Al Qaida-linked insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula as well as on the African mainland.
“It [Brotherhood] supports and massively finances from abroad numerous radical terrorists in several groups,” Egyptian Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said.
In a briefing on Nov. 23, Ibrahim said the Brotherhood was contracting Al Qaida and other groups to attack Egyptian military and security forces.
Ibrahim said the campaign began in wake of the military overthrow of Egypt’s first Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in July.
Egypt: Muslims burn down Christian homes over relationship between Muslim girl and Christian boy
Islamic law forbids Muslim women from marrying Christian men. When the "reports surfaced of a relationship between a Muslim girl and a Coptic boy," the two families "held reconciliatory talks," but they "fell through after 'Muslims burnt down the house of the boy’s father and an adjacent house.'" Now that's "dialogue."
"Sectarian violence in Minya leaves five dead," by Hend Kortam for Daily News Egypt, November 29:
Two separate incidents of sectarian violence in villages in the governorate of Minya on Thursday claimed several lives.
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi spied for Hamas and al-Qaeda
The police officer who discovered this was murdered a week after he revealed it. And through all this Morsi kept the loyal support of the Obama Administration. "Assassinated police officer disclosed evidence Morsy spied for Hamas: Sources," by Tarek Wageeh for Al-Masry Al-Youm, November 21:
Prosecution investigations on assassinations of senior police officer Mohamed Mabrouk, of Interior Ministry’s national security branch, have revealed that Mabrouk was killed one week after submitting CD to investigations authority levelling spying charges against deposed President Mohamed Morsy and other Muslim Brotherhood figures.
Muslim Brotherhood 'stole' Egypt's revolution: Kerry
(AFP)
Washington — US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday accused the Muslim Brotherhood of stealing Egypt's revolution, in some of his toughest comments yet about the party that took power in the nation's first democratic election.
In a speech to a forum on enhancing links between private sector businesses and diplomatic security agencies, Kerry said "the best antidote to extremism is opportunity."
"Those kids in Tahrir Square, they were not motivated by any religion or ideology.
"They were motivated by what they saw through this interconnected world, and they wanted a piece of the opportunity and a chance to get an education and have a job and have a future, and not have a corrupt government that deprived them of all of that and more," the top US diplomat said.
SPIKE IN KIDNAPPINGS BESETS EGYPT’S VULNERABLE CHRISTIANCOMMUNITY
Country/Region: Egypt, Middle East and North Africa
The Christian community has been blamed for the fall of Morsi
The Christian community in Egypt has been beset by a sharp increase in kidnappings since the authorities cleared sit-in protests by supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammad Morsi.
This was the question that Adamu Habila faced on the 28th November 2012 as gunmen from the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram broke into his Nigerian home and threatened him with death.
As Habila answered ‘yes’, his wife begged for their lives.
Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, convened a hearing to examine the next steps on U.S. policy toward Egypt. Senior officials from the State Department, Defense Department, and USAID are testifying at the hearing, entitled “Next Steps on Egypt Policy.”
Below is Chairman Royce’s opening statement as prepared for delivery at the hearing:
Today we look at the very challenging U.S-Egypt relationship. Since President Hosni Mubarak’s fall, Egypt has been in political, economic and social turmoil. This has seriously strained - some suggest imperiled - our very important relationship. It has certainly put our considerable interests in the region at risk.
Egypt arrests ex-army officer in connection with Interior Minister attack : Reuters - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
Egypt arrests ex-army officer in connection with Interior Minister attack : Reuters
The former naval officer was previously jailed for taking part in 1981 assassination of Sadat
Egyptian authorities have arrested an Islamist militant jailed over the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, for plotting bomb attacks on behalf of Al-Qaeda since his release from prison in 2012, security sources said on Tuesday.
Armed Attack on Cairo Church Highlights Targeting of Copts
By: Mohammad Salah
Relatives of four victims killed in an attack at a wedding attend their funerals at the Virgin Church in Cairo, Oct. 21, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/ Mohamed Abd El Ghany )
Within Egypt’s scene of violence, the armed attack on a church near Cairo — in which four were killed — has put the spotlight back on the anti-Copt attacks that have surged after former President Mohammed Morsi was ousted in early July.
One man, an elderly woman and two children were killed, and 17 were wounded, in a shooting on the Church of the Virgin Mary in the poor neighborhood of al-Warraq as wedding guests were leaving.
