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| Thirty Men Sentenced For Egyptian Church Attack Plot | |
| 2019-03-31 | |
| [Jpost] Thirty men were sentenced to between 10 years to life imprisonment on Saturday for planning a suicide kaboom on a church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria and other charges, court official said. Authorities said at the time of their arrest that the defendants had embraced the ideas of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and received training abroad and in Egypt. Twenty of the defendants who appeared in court, dressed in white prison garb, did not react to the sentences, and there was no immediate comment from lawyers representing them. The other 10 are still on the run and were sentenced in absentia. The attack on the church did not take place. But minority Christians have faced a series of assaults in Alexandria and other parts of Egypt in recent years. The defendants were also accused of planning to bomb a liquor store in the Mediterranean city of Damietta, joining an illegal group and possessing weapons and explosives. Eighteen of them received life terms, which are 25 years long in Egypt, eight got 15 years in prison and four were sentenced to 10 years, the head of the Alexandria Criminal Court, convened in Cairo, said. Egyptian authorities have cracked down on Islamist groups since President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi led the 2013 military overthrow of Egypt's first freely-elected president, Mohammed Mursi of the Moslem Brüderbund.
The prosecution in their investigation accused the defendants of planning a "suicide bombing" in July 2017 at a church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the source said. Around 600 suspected militants and 40 soldiers have been killed in an army offensive launched in February 2018, according to official figures. | |
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