New Year sectarian massacre in Egypt

partyatmygaff

Last year it was a drive by shooting during Christmas and now it's a multiple car bombing on New Years Day
May they RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12101748

EDIT:
There's CCTV footage of the bombing here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12102439

Be warned there are images of blood and bodies (Covered) in the video.

At least 21 people have been killed at a Egyptian church in an explosion which officials have blamed on a suicide bomber with foreign links.
More than 70 others were injured in the attack, during a new year's service at the al-Qiddissin (Saints) Church in the northern port city of Alexandria.
Coptic Christians and Muslims clashed after the attack, but police moved in and used tear gas to restore order.
President Hosni Mubarak urged Egyptians to unite against "terrorism".
In a televised statement, he blamed "foreign hands" for the bombing.
"Wicked terrorists targeted the nation, Copts and Muslims," he said.
"It is a terrorist operation that is alien to us... We will all cut off the head of the snake, confront terrorism and defeat it."
So far no group has said it carried out the attack.


bout 1,000 worshippers were attending the new year's mass at the church in the Sidi Bechr district of the Mediterranean port city.
As the service drew to a close after midnight, a bomb went off in the street outside.
"The last thing I heard was a powerful explosion and then my ears went deaf," 17-year-old Marco Boutros told the Associated Press from his hospital bed. "All I could see were body parts scattered all over."
Another witness told the private On-TV channel that he had seen two men park a car outside the church and get out just before the blast.
Officials initially thought the cause was a car bomb, but the interior ministry later ruled it out, saying the attack was instead "carried out by a suicide bomber who died among the crowd".
The device was packed with pieces of metal shrapnel to cause the maximum amount of harm, a statement said.
And the circumstances of the attack, "given the methods that currently prevail in terrorist activities at the global and regional level, clearly indicate" that it was "planned and carried out by foreign elements", it added.
But the most senior Coptic cleric in Alexandria, Archbishop Arweis, said the security services wanted to blame a suicide bomber instead of a car bomb so they could write it off as something carried out by a lone attacker.
He also denounced the "lack of protection" in front of the church.
"There were only three soldiers and an officer in front of the church. Why did they have so little security at such a sensitive time when there's so many threats coming from al-Qaeda?" he told the Associated Press.
The government said it had stepped up security measures outside churches after the Islamic State of Iraq, a militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq, threatened the Copts of Egypt at the end of October.

fedor.2.

whatever happened fireworks

WindSock

Their new year celebrations went off with a bang.

Wolfe Tone

Thats horrible.


RIP

WindSock

WindSock wrote: »

Their new year celebrations went off with a bang.

Oh it's all very well for you to be making jokes, but people are dead. Disgusting.

WindSock

WindSock wrote: »

Oh it's all very well for you to be making jokes, but people are dead. Disgusting.

Meh, it's AH. Anything goes.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

fedor.2. wrote: »

whatever happened fireworks

I wonder if you would say the same if any of your family members or friends were in the blast...

WindSock

WindSock wrote: »

Meh, it's AH. Anything goes.

No it doesn't.

Wolfe Tone

Windsock you are being neither funny or clever





Nice try though.

Sea Sharp

Windsock, don't forget your crazy pills.

You know how they say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness? Does this count quoting yourself?

<stares at Windsock>

Badgermonkey

self indulgent Windsock but worse, borderline mildly amusing.

Jesus Wept

WindSock wrote: »

Oh it's all very well for you to be making jokes, but people are dead. Disgusting.

+1.
Sock it to them.

delta_bravo

WindSock wrote: »

Their new year celebrations went off with a bang.

WindSock wrote: »

Oh it's all very well for you to be making jokes, but people are dead. Disgusting.

WindSock wrote: »

Meh, it's AH. Anything goes.

WindSock wrote: »

No it doesn't.

That is pathetic.

fedor.2.

Craig Drab Crab wrote: »

I wonder if you would say the same if any of your family members or friends were in the blast...

They are just words on a thread, thats all, i didn't hurt anyone, no need to bring my family in to it. Take your moral outrage and do something about it then, but of course you wont

WindSock

MUSSOLINI wrote: »

Windsock you are being neither funny or clever



Nice try though.

Why do I not believe you for your last bit...

Getting the usual dialogue out of the way. It is actually both funny and clever. harrumph.

Son Of A Vidic

I think I'll have what WindSock has been having.

Micky Dolenz

Why is everyone so mean? I refer to this thread and people in general.

Yakult

Isnt religion just great?

Oranage2

Serves those christians right, wearing miniskirts and the like.

WindSock

Badgermonkey wrote: »

self indulgent Windsock but worse, borderline mildly amusing.

As long as people are almost mildly amused, I have done my job. Now back to the RIP's and everything that makes a thread worth reading in AH. Dotted with a few priggish high horsery posts for good measure and add a smidgeon of Muslim bashing.


*subscribes to thread*

WindSock

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I think I'll have what WindSock has been having.

Careful, it may blow your head off.....consarnit, I'm doing it again.

Anyone else half expecting Windsock to start having cyber sex with themselves?

Gummy Panda

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone else half expecting Windsock to start having cyber sex with themselves?

we can only hope

WindSock

Well, judging by the calibre of boring stock responses, one can only consider themselves the most likely of candidates.

WindSock

WindSock wrote: »

Well, judging by the calibre of boring stock responses, one can only consider themselves the most likely of candidates.

Stop derailing the thread and making it all about you. Coptic the feck on.

What thread? Goddammit. It's 2 pages in and there is no discussion as it is. Feel like I am talking to myself here.

Gonna change the post per page to 40.

Would it not be just e-masturbating in essence?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

fedor.2. wrote: »

They are just words on a thread, thats all, i didn't hurt anyone, no need to bring my family in to it. Take your moral outrage and do something about it then, but of course you wont

Sure that's alright then, if it's just words then don't worry. Sure we can be racist, insulting, sexist etc etc, once it's only words... :rolleyes:

How you can miss my point is beyond me. Try putting yourself in the shoes of a family member of one of the victims and then read the crap you and others wrote. Wouldn't be nice to read would it?

It's not a moral outrage, it's having some common courtesy for your fellow human beings. For the sake of thanks whoring, it's low to mock a group of innocent recently deceased people.

WindSock

Deleted User wrote: »

Would it not be just e-masturbating in essence?

I think people get more self gratification from thankswhoring. Be they thankswhoring for lols, or thankswhoring for telling other people off for lols. The latter requires little imagination though.
I was doing neither, initially, just getting the usual dialogue out of the way as I stated previously. Now that is the only dialogue in the thread so far. Oh well. At least its something.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

WindSock wrote: »

I think people get more self gratification from thankswhoring. Be they thankswhoring for lols, or thankswhoring for telling other people off for lols. The latter requires little imagination though.
I was doing neither, initially, just getting the usual dialogue out of the way as I stated previously. Now that is the only dialogue in the thread so far. Oh well. At least its something.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

fedor.2.

Craig Drab Crab wrote: »

Sure that's alright then, if it's just words then don't worry. Sure we can be racist, insulting, sexist etc etc, once it's only words... :rolleyes:

How you can miss my point is beyond me. Try putting yourself in the shoes of a family member of one of the victims and then read the crap you and others wrote. Wouldn't be nice to read would it?

It's not a moral outrage, it's having some common courtesy for your fellow human beings. For the sake of thanks whoring, it's low to mock a group of innocent recently deceased people.

I wasn't racist, nor sexist. who did i insult, you? pfft. I missed the point because you didn't make one. I didn't mock any recently deceased people either. i asked a simple question. youre being oversensitive.

WindSock

Craig Drab Crab wrote: »

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

lol, Happy New Year!!

TeddyTedson

R_H_C_P wrote: »

Isnt religion just great?

LUL

It sure is.
What would the world be fighting over though if there was no religion?
Football matches again?

WindSock

TeddyTedson wrote: »

LUL

It sure is.
What would the world be fighting over though if there was no religion?
Football matches again?

Ah there's always somethin. Politics, perhaps?

As long as there is people there will be BLOOD.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

fedor.2. wrote: »

I wasn't racist, nor sexist. who did i insult, you? pfft. I missed the point because you didn't make one. I didn't mock any recently deceased people either. i asked a simple question. youre being oversensitive.

Are you serious? Are you trying your best to not understand or what?

You said that it's only words, I then tried to show you that being racist, sexist or other via words is ok, as your logic would have it.

You will find that you just missed the point, that is all.

Trying to make a joke and thankswhoring at the expense of the victims of this masacre. A simple question? Yea... good one.

Oversensitive? No, it's called compassion.

WindSock wrote: »

lol, Happy New Year!!

Happy new year to you too.

fedor.2.

Craig Drab Crab wrote: »

Are you serious? Are you trying your best to not understand or what?

You said that it's only words, I then tried to show you that being racist, sexist or other via words is ok, as your logic would have it.

You will find that you just missed the point, that is all.

Trying to make a joke and thankswhoring at the expense of the victims of this masacre. A simple question? Yea... good one.

Oversensitive? No, it's called compassion.



you're wrong, racism and sexism are never OK, i dunno where you got that idea. It was nice having this chat with you, i hope we get the chance to do it again

Oranage2

fedor.2. wrote: »

Are you serious? Are you trying your best to not understand or what?

You said that it's only words, I then tried to show you that being racist, sexist or other via words is ok, as your logic would have it.

You will find that you just missed the point, that is all.

Trying to make a joke and thankswhoring at the expense of the victims of this masacre. A simple question? Yea... good one.

Oversensitive? No, it's called compassion.



you're wrong, racism and sexism are never OK, i dunno where you got that idea. It was nice having this chat with you, i hope we get the chance to do it again

Stop trying so hard and just be yourself

partyatmygaff

There's CCTV footage of the bombing here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12102439

Be warned there are images of blood and bodies (Covered) in the video.

Coriolanus

The copts have a pretty raw deal in Egypt in general. If they're only 10% of the population there's not much they can do either.

wes

Al Qaeda has been calling for attacks on Christians in the Middle East, and this looks to be some of the wacko's they have inspired have decided to act on it. They have been also attacking Christians in Iraq as well. The Egyptian and Iraqi governments need to do more to protect Christians and do more to counter the Anti-Christian hate speech from AQ and there ilk.

Piste

Wow this thread is dull. And I don't mean due to the subject matter, I mean the constant bickering.


The bombing is a terrible tragedy. You'd have to wonder what on earth the terorrist(s) hope(s) to achieve by carrying out an act of mass murder.

af_thefragile

All I have to say is Cheers Windsock for getting the obvious out of the way!!

fedor.2.

Mass murder is the only thing they can and want to achieve. Its a mentality most of us will never understand

af_thefragile

fedor.2. wrote: »

Mass murder is the only thing they can and want to achieve. Its a mentality most of us will never understand

These people are nothing but wackos.
They probably have some sort of screwed up mentality.

Such acts are harmful for both christians and muslims.

They're no different from serial killers working on a larger scale.

Son Of A Vidic

Ah organised religion - the source of all evil. Wouldn't the world be a better place without it.

partyatmygaff

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Ah organised religion - the source of all evil. Wouldn't the world be a better place without it.

Can you leave your anti-theistic propaganda out of this thread? It's neither the time nor place for it.

dsmythy

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Ah organised religion - the source of all evil. Wouldn't the world be a better place without it.

The people being blown up didn't seem to be bothering anyone as they prayed....

WindSock

af_thefragile wrote: »

All I have to say is Cheers Windsock for getting the obvious out of the way!!

Yeah, shame the point was lost on some. Oh well. Derpy derpy derp.

take everything

WindSock wrote: »

Their new year celebrations went off with a bang.

WindSock wrote: »

Oh it's all very well for you to be making jokes, but people are dead. Disgusting.

WindSock wrote: »

Meh, it's AH. Anything goes.

WindSock wrote: »

No it doesn't.

Take it to PM.

consultech

delta_bravo wrote: »

That is pathetic.

If you lived your life on boards.ie aswell you'd prob think it was funny too.

RIP to all dead