Several damning allegations below. "Former Egyptian Interior Minister Accused of Collusion in Alexandria Church Bombing," by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, June 4:
(AINA) -- The Egyptian attorney general has reopened the investigation into the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year's Eve, which killed 24 Copts and injured more than 90. On May 25 Coptic Church attorney Joseph Malak presented a petition to the Attorney General to reopen the investigations into the church bombing. The petition accused former Minister of Interior, Habib el-Adly, of criminal responsibility and collusion.
The Attorney General assigned the case to the Supreme State Security Prosecution to question the former Minister of Interior, who is presently in prison on other charges, including ordering the shooting of more than 900 protesters in Tahrir Square on January 28.
"We expect el-Adly to appear for interrogation before prosecution within the next few days," said Malak in an interview on Egyptian TV. He said that everyone was surprised when in mid April it was reported that all 20 Muslim suspects in the church attack were released and that they had been held as "political detainees
The bombing of the church shocked Egypt and the world and brought international condemnation of Egypt, including from Pope Benedict, for not protecting its Christian minority against violence, especially as Egyptian churches had received repeated threats of retaliatory action from al-Qaida militants in Iraq, immediately after the massacre of 58 Assyrians at Our Lady of Deliverance Church in Baghdad.
In both the Iraq and Egypt attacks the reason was allegedly over female Christian-converts to Islam who were held against their will by the Coptic Church. The Coptic church has denied the accusation.
The lack of security forces guarding the threatened Egyptian churches was heavily criticized, especially as the security forces withdrew nearly one hour before the blast, leaving only four policemen and an officer to guard the church and nearly 2000 people attending the midnight mass. Coptic activists had called at the time for the resignation of Habib el-Adly, who was then Interior Minister, and pointed fingers at Muslim Salafists in Egypt (AINA 1-2-2011). Following this announcement and the arrest three weeks later of 20 suspects in the church bombing, a media blackout was imposed by the General Prosecutor's Office.
The church in Alexandria assigned Malak to pursue the case. "I had an unofficial meeting with the prosecution in Alexandria, requesting information on the decision to release the suspects in the church bombing, the disclosure of the investigations conducted with them, as well as the progress in the case and if it was still open."
Malak said he was stunned to learn the case had been "frozen" since January 25 and the file was transferred to the Supreme State Security Prosecution. Also, there were no accused, as previously claimed by the Interior Minister, and those who were detained were never investigated. "I was told by prosecution that they do not even have the names of the accused, and the only role they played was investigating the witnesses and the injured."
Malak said he sent a complaint to the Military Council, but never received a reply, so he approached the Attorney General.
"We believe the Interior Minister had a security breach and there was a certain security policy which was evident in this case." He added that after the Egyptian church got direct and clear threats from Al-Qaida in November 2010, the security forces should have been fully prepared for this threat....
In a way, one supposes they were.
After close to 18'000 islamic driven acts of terrorism since 9/11/01 it is now obvious that 5'500'000'000 non-Muslims on Earth can no longer tolerate the Psychological-terrorism threats of living with a well-founded fear for being killed by those FEW misunderstanders of the Peaceful teachings in the quran.
The world should band together and declare that a Muslim-Nation be set aside for them to segregate the terrorism and mass-slaughters among themselves so the rest of us can live in Peace with our laws that give Rights to females and that also Condemns and jails pedophiles instead of exhalting them for emulating the founder of their Faith.
It's now too late for Muslims to deny what the quran really says about Christians and Jews , and it's too late for CAIR to go on banging their Drum of "Islamophobia" for anyone that tells the truth about Terrorism and the disproportionate link to islam for the Terrorists that slaughter chuildren and civilians as a favour to Allah.
Enough all ready , and CAIR has a helluva nerve to claim they speak for 1.5 billion peaceful muslims on Earth when the USA only has about 0.002% Percent of the total amount of Muslims on Earth. It is a bigotted assertion and arrogant for CAIR to paint 99.998% of all Muslims with the same brush that they are all morons and yahoos if they don't think like Nihad Awad and Fib-Brahim Hooper who by the way can only now claim to speak for less than 50'000 of the 3'000'000 mulims on US soil ( that makes the support for CAIR to be just 0.000033% of all the Muslim on Earth and this means that the 30'000'000+ that agree with armed-jihad now see CAIR as apostates to be killed for Allah's cause to purify earth and bring Peace).
I still find it a very telling observation that many Imams and islamic Clerics are too stupid to see the damage they do when promoting islam as the faith that has slaughtered less people than the other faiths......kinda like a Hotel in Mexico boasting that they have the lowest Murder-rate of foreign guests killed by the drug cartels.
Pretty pathetic that imams excuse-away the mass-murders by pointing out the upside that less slaughters have happened from islamic ruled Nations or populations.
Although reports of official foot-dragging in investigating the church bombing in Alexandria may have surfaced, it is likely that they will not go anywhere.
Does anyone really expect the Egyptian government to prosecute anyone for bombing a Christian church?
Egypt's sectarian playing field
"Egyptian Christianity, of course, predates Islam - which was brought by the Arab conquest of Egypt in 639 AD, and became the majority religion. Some Egyptians embraced Islam voluntarily for its promise of justice, many did so to avoid karaaj or jizya taxes, while still others to acquire equal social and political status with Muslims.
By the 10th century, Muslims outnumbered the Christian population, and Arabic replaced the Coptic language as the official governmental language. In the 12th century, the church adopted Arabic as the official working language.
Under Muslim rule, Copts became a dimmi (non-Muslim) minority - denied the option of serving in the army, or serving in high political positions, and were subject to a special tax, in exchange for their protection."
Read it all. It's very interesting.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/06/201163904835903.html