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Egypt: Islamic jihadists target Egyptian police with bombs and gunfire, murder five, wound 70

Jan 24, 2014 10:27 am By Robert Spencer

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An angry crowd gathered outside the bombed police headquarters chanting, “Death to the Muslim Brotherhood.” The Brotherhood denies involvement. And they may be telling the truth; however, they stand the most to gain at this point from the weakening of the government and the destabilization of Egyptian society.

“Cairo bomb attacks: Five killed and 70 wounded as explosions and gunfire target Egyptian police ,” from the Independent, January 24 (thanks to Kenneth):

Police in Egypt have been targeted in a devastating series of explosions this morning, including a suicide car bombing on the main security headquarters in Cairo.

In total at least five people have been killed, the majority of them police officers, and at least 70 wounded in three blasts across the capital.

The main car bomb attack caused extensive damage to the Cairo Security Directorate, the building which is home to both the police and state security and as such is one of the most heavily-guarded in the country.

Witnesses told state TV reporters that gunmen on motorcycles also opened fire on the building in the wake of the explosion at around 6.30am local time, while Reuters quoted sources saying three of those killed were members of the police.

Just hours later a second bomb attack targeted security vehicles at a metro station in the capital.

Egyptian state TV said one person was killed and 15 were injured when a person driving past the station threw a hand grenade in the direction of the police.

Shortly afterwards a third blast, also reportedly caused by a hand grenade, targeted a small police station in the Cairo suburbs around two miles from the famous Giza Pyramids. No one was killed.

Combined, the attacks mean a bloody start to the anniversary of the uprising which, three years ago, saw the dictator Hosni Mubarak removed from power.

The Muslim Brotherhood had previously announced plans to protest following Friday prayers across the country, in the latest demonstrations since the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi was overthrown in July.

The front of several floors of the building were destroyed in the blast, which also caused damage to the nearby National Archives, Islamic Art Museum, and a court house.

The al-Qa’ida-inspired militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or the Champions of Jerusalem, has claimed responsibility for the police headquarters attack, BBC News reported.

Egypt’s Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim described it as a “vile terrorist act”, and it was also condemned by the Muslim Brotherhood who called for an investigation….

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:30 am

    The constant bombing and murders in the name of Mohammed and his invisible partner will make this death cult stink in the nostrils of Muslims, causing many to lose their faith. A god that inspires people to constant acts of murder is not worthy of being worshipped.

    • Bettina says

      Jan 24, 2014 at 11:09 am

      Nice metaphor, Mortimer:
      “…will make this death cult stink in the nostrils of Muslims…” You sound like you’re familiar with the very graphic imagery favored by Arabic speakers everywhere.
      In Morocco, I grew up exposed to metaphoric speech from Arabs and Jews alike.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 24, 2014 at 11:03 pm

      Mortimer wrote:

      The constant bombing and murders in the name of Mohammed and his invisible partner will make this death cult stink in the nostrils of Muslims, causing many to lose their faith.
      ……………………………..

      With all respect, Mortimer, the savagery of Islam hasn’t caused mass apostasy in the past 1400 years—I’m not sure why you think it would start now.

      More:

      A god that inspires people to constant acts of murder is not worthy of being worshipped.
      ……………………………..

      That’s the opinion of a civilized Infidel—yourself—not the opinion of pious Muslims.

  2. David Hayden says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:48 am

    Ditto, Mortimer. Hopefully, one day critical mass with be reached.

  3. David Hayden says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:50 am

    Ditto, Mortimer. Hopefully, one day critical mass will be achieved.

  4. James Peyton says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 11:04 am

    If that were true, radical Islam would already be relatively unimportant.

  5. Salah says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 11:13 am

    An angry crowd gathered outside the bombed police headquarters chanting, “Death to the Muslim Brotherhood.”

    The Muslim Brotherhood is history, it’s dead. Bombs mean nothing. The MB will never come back to life again, at least, not in Egypt.
    This has been the case since June 30, ARSH 2013.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html

    • flakmusic says

      Jan 24, 2014 at 11:33 am

      test

    • flakmusic says

      Jan 24, 2014 at 11:35 am

      test2

  6. Bettina says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    Just read a related article on Al-Monitor. Learned that Hamas lost its funding from Iran and Qatar. The Gaza Strip now shows 50% unemployment, and Israel once again comes to the rescue by providing food and other goods to Gazans. So Hamas is owing, which isn’t a bad thing: if they “behave,” the flow will continue.
    But many of the unemployed have joined other terrorist orgs, who want Hamas out of there so they can gain supremacy. Therefore, even if Egypt’s Al-Sisi’s military succeed in unseating Hamas, plenty are waiting in line to take its place.
    And the cycle of anti-West, anti-Israel violence is assured of a new incarnation — same Islamic political fervor, same terror, different faces.
    A pretty bleak picture.

  7. mortimer says

    Jan 24, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    A suggestion to James Peyton: look up ‘salafi burnout’.

    e.g. ‘This phenomenon, which we might label ‘salafi burnout’, is a recognised feature of many modern Muslim cultures. An initial enthusiasm, gained usually in one’s early twenties, loses steam some seven to ten years later. Prison and torture – the frequent lot of the Islamic radical – may serve to prolong commitment, but ultimately, a majority of these neo-Muslims relapse, seemingly no better or worse for their experience in the cult-like universe of the salafi mindset.”

    http://reflectionsofamuslim.blogspot.ca/2005/03/salafi-burnout.html

  8. EYESOPEN says

    Jan 25, 2014 at 9:51 am

    Sounds to me like the salafists, the muslim brotherhood brothers in arms, have taken over where the MB left off.

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