Coptic Church Bombing Was Helped Along By Former Interior Minister

On New Years eve a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria was bombed leaving 24 innocent people dead this was not the first but one of many bombings targeting Egypt's Coptic community following that bombing a rather extraordinary thing happened. Rather than dividing Egyptians along ethnic and religious lines it brought them together in a show unity. On Coptic Christmas Eve thousands of Muslims turned out to protect those celebrating Coptic Mass. As with any crime there needs to a villain and such a villain must be chosen wisely with an authoritarian government there can only be one Islamic militants from the Gaza Strip and most conveniently associated with Al Qaeda. There is just one small problem with this narrative those bombings stopped just as suddenly as they had begun when the protests started on January 25. It would seem that those militants from the Gaza Strip weren't responsible for the bombings but the former Interior Minister.

According the UK diplomatic sources quoted in the reports, the former interior minister had built up in over six years a special security system that was managed by 22 officers and that employed a number of former radical Islamists, drug dealers and some security firms to carry out acts of sabotage around the country in case the regime was under threat to collapse.

The proclamation also pointed, sourcing reports on UK intelligence services, that interior ministry officer Maj. Fathi Abdelwahid began in Dec. 11, 2011 preparing Ahmed Mohamed Khaled, who had spent 11 years in Egyptian prisons, to contact an extremist group named Jundullah and coordinate with it the attack on the Alexandria church.