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| Car Bomb Defused near Cairo |
| 2013-12-03 |
| [An Nahar] Security forces defused a bomb placed in a car and primed to explode on a roadside near the Egyptian capital on Monday, security officials said. The interior ministry said the stolen car was detected near a petrol station on the road to the city of Suez. An employee at the petrol station, which local residents said belongs to the army, spotted three people parking the car and leaving on foot, one official said. Security officials said the apparent target was a passing convoy. On September 5, interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim escaped unhurt from a roadside kabooming. But 11 soldiers died in a similar attack on their bus in the Sinai on November 20. Police and soldiers have become prime targets of such attacks since the military's July 3 overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... Dozens of members of the security forces have been killed, especially in the Sinai Peninsula of northeast Egypt bordering Gazoo and Israel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Prior to the US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, car bombs were relatively rare. Since the wackos have been training anybody who can point to Mecca how to blow things up, it seems like bombs are becoming more common than shootings in the middle east. [waxes philosophical] An unintended consequence of 'Death to America' training? Inflaming simmering religious tensions, which can be relieved only by exploding something. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2013-12-03 08:02 |