Al-Qaeda Websites May Have Spurred Suicide Bombing of Egyptian Coptic Church

Source: AP

by Amar Toor on January 7, 2011 at 07:30 AM

On New Year's Day, a suicide bombing killed 21 people at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was quick to accuse foreign groups of orchestrating the attack, while domestic investigators turned their attention to extremist groups within the country. Now, new evidence has emerged to suggest that Al-Qaeda may have at least lain out the groundwork for the plot via the Web.

In the weeks leading up to the attack, websites affiliated with Al-Qaeda had published detailed guides on how to go about "destroying the cross," along with instructional bomb-making videos and maps of targeted churches (including the Coptic church attacked last week). One site posted the so-called 'Jihadi Encyclopedia for the Destruction of the Cross,' along with a series of ten videos, featuring a masked militant mixing ingredients for TNT. The site features a list of Coptic churches in Egypt, with their addresses and phone numbers.

Officials are currently investigating a domestic group of extremists, known as the Salafis, and acknowledge that they may have been inspired by Al-Qaeda to carry out the attack. Authorities also told the AP that they had been aware of the online how-to guides before the attack, and are looking into any possible connections to last week's tragedy.

Read more: http://www.switched.com/2011/01/07/al-qaeda-websites-suicide-bombing-egyptian-church/

Al-Queda is no different than the TeaBaggers in that respect.

One would think that the same US govt that is pulling out all the stops to bring down wikileaks could be able to attack these "al-queda" web sites. It appears that the Al-Queda web sites are left alone because the people have to be reminded that they are supposed to be deathly afraid.

:sarcasm:

So they can build a multi-billion dollar drone headquarters and fly planes from halfway around the world but they can't hire people to look at a website and counter that? It's like the old muscle-bound weigh-lifter. He can lift 500 pounds but can't reach his own nose to swat a mosquito.

fwiw, olympic style weightlifters, in a test at the Mexico City olympics, tested 2nd ONLY TO GYMNASTS in joint flexibility.
Source: Arnold Dreschler Weightlifting Encyclopedia (also referenced by Dr. Fred Hatfield).

You wanna see flexibility?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMnsnzDYWik
(check out his 2nd snatch)