MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Egypt Links Palestinian Group to Church Attack
By artappraiser on Sun, 01/23/2011 - 3:47pm |By Michael Slackman, New York Times, January 23, 2011
CAIRO — Egypt’s Interior Minister charged Sunday that a Palestinian extremist group with links to Al Qaeda was behind the New Year’s Eve bombing outside a church in Alexandria that killed 21 people and set off days of sectarian rioting around the nation.
In a nationally televised speech, the minister, Habib el-Adly said the authorities had “conclusive evidence” linking the attack on Egyptian Christians to the Army of Islam, a militant group based in the Gaza Strip....
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/world/middleeast/24egypt.html?hp
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