Monday, December 30, 2013

Bombing wounds 4 soldiers in northeast Egypt

Bombing wounds 4 soldiers in northeast Egypt

( Associated Press ) - ALTERNATE CROP -- Security personnel and others inspect the site of an explosion outside a military intelligence building in Anshas, a rural village in Sharqiya province, nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Attacks on security targets have become frequent following the July 3 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The government has recently blamed the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which Morsi hails, for the attacks, labeling the group a terrorist organization. The government provided no evidence linking the Brotherhood to the militant attacks.
  • ( Associated Press ) - ALTERNATE CROP -- Security personnel and others inspect the site of an explosion outside a military intelligence building in Anshas, a rural village in Sharqiya province, nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Attacks on security targets have become frequent following the July 3 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The government has recently blamed the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which Morsi hails, for the attacks, labeling the group a terrorist organization. The government provided no evidence linking the Brotherhood to the militant attacks.
  • (Khaled Kandil/ Associated Press ) - Security personnel and others inspect the site of an explosion outside a military intelligence building in Anshas, a rural village in Sharqiya province, nearly 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Attacks on security targets have become frequent following the July 3 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The government has recently blamed the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which Morsi hails, for the attacks, labeling the group a terrorist organization. The government provided no evidence linking the Brotherhood to the militant attacks.
  • (Mohammed Asad/ Associated Press ) - Egyptian men try to help save the life of an al-Azhar University student heavily injured from clashes outside the university in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Students of Egypt’s main Islamic university said they were prevented from taking their exams on Sunday by fellow students who support the Muslim Brotherhood. The comments were made outside al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Commerce, which was set on fire a day earlier.
  • (Amr Nabil/ Associated Press ) - A poster showing Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, late Presidents Gamal Abdel-Nasser, top right, and Anwar Sadat, top left, is displayed with souvenirs of Egypt’s Pharaonic monuments at a shop in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013. Arabic reads, “we die but Egypt lives.”
  • (Amr Nabil/ Associated Press ) - An Egyptian bread vender sits next to copies of the new constitution sold on a street in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013. A constitutional referendum is planned on Jan. 14 and 15. Arabic reads, “the constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt.”
  • (Amr Nabil/ Associated Press ) - An Egyptian vender sells copies of the new constitution in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2013. A constitutional referendum in planned on Jan. 14 and 15. Arabic reads, “the constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt.”

By Associated Press, Published: December 29



CAIRO — A bomb exploded outside a military intelligence building northeast of Egypt’s capital Sunday, wounding four people and damaging the structure as protests and security scares roiled the country just weeks before a key vote.
The explosion in Anshas, a village in Sharqiya province, came as violent student protests at a Cairo university and its branches played on television channels across the country, only adding to the turmoil and sense of public worry in Egypt following a July 3 popularly backed military coup that toppled Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The military-backed interim government, wanting to cement its legitimacy, hopes for a strong voter turnout for a constitutional referendum Jan. 14-15. The country’s interim president suggested Sunday that the order of the parliamentary and presidential polls following it could be changed.

The bombing struck the military intelligence building in Anshas, a village 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Cairo that is home to number of military facilities, including an air base and Egypt’s first experimental nuclear reactor. AP Television News footage showed debris littering the ground and a large gash in one of its walls.
Military spokesman Ahmed Mohammed Ali said on his official Facebook page that the explosion damaged the back wall of the military intelligence office and wounded four soldiers guarding it. He said an investigation had begun to determine what caused the blast.
Ali said the blast was part of a series “of cowardly terrorist operations carried out by the forces of darkness and sedition against the people of Egypt, military installations and vital targets.”
Security officials said investigators were trying to determine whether the blast was caused by a hand grenade or a car bomb. They spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
The blast struck as protests against Morsi’s ouster continued Sunday. For the second day, protesters disrupted exams at the Islamic University of Al-Azhar. At the Cairo campus, some students tore up their examination papers, while others threw rocks as police fired tear gas. Police arrested 27 students over the protests, security officials said.
One student was killed in clashes Saturday and a main administration building was set on fire.
The violence stopped those wanting to take exams from reaching classrooms. Tawfiq Nour el-Din, deputy dean of the university, told state television that alternative rooms will be prepared to ensure exams continue. Later Sunday, Egypt state news agency MENA reported that university security officials defused two homemade bombs planted on campus.

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