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Large Explosion Hits Central Cairo
BBC ^ | Friday, January 25, 2014

Posted on 01/23/2014 9:53:25 PM PST by kristinn

There has been a large explosion in the Egyptian capital Cairo, near the city's police headquarters, state TV reports.

There are reports of casualties. The AFP news agency has reported one person has been killed.

Eyewitnesses speak of smoke rising over the city centre, and there are reports of gunfire after the blast. It is unclear what caused the explosion.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; cairo; cairoexplosion; egypt; egyptmb; gaza; iran; israel; lebanon; libya; muslimbrotherhood; russia; sinai; waronterror
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21 posted on 01/24/2014 5:10:01 AM PST by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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To: All
Update via AP

Three bombings hit high-profile areas around Cairo on Friday, including a suicide car bomber who struck the city's police headquarters, killing five people in the first major attack on the Egyptian capital as insurgents step up a campaign of violence following the ouster of the Islamist president.

SNIP

22 posted on 01/24/2014 5:10:57 AM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: BenLurkin; kristinn

Multiple attacks reported.

First attack at Cairo Police HQ. Suicide VBIED detonates, followed by drive-by shootings. Five dead, 47 injured.

Second attack at metro station in Cairo, targeting police vehicles. One dead, eight injured.

Third attack at the Pyramids. Also a police station, no reports of casualties.

From the article: “The attacks come a day before the three-year anniversary of the 18-day uprising against Morsi’s predecessor president Hosni Mubarak, which began on January 25, 2011, a date also known as Police Day.”


23 posted on 01/24/2014 5:21:22 AM PST by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: kristinn

“What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.”


24 posted on 01/24/2014 5:32:06 AM PST by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: TigersEye

“Sure that could be it but ... what difference does it make!?!”
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Hmmm, possibly a change of axis from vertical to horizontal?


25 posted on 01/24/2014 5:49:24 AM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: demshateGod

Dam Lutherans


26 posted on 01/24/2014 5:50:44 AM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Deo volente

Those young muslims, they blow up so fast.


27 posted on 01/24/2014 6:06:37 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: kristinn

More Obama foreign policy success.


28 posted on 01/24/2014 6:07:20 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: kristinn

,,,but you can keep your doctor…


29 posted on 01/24/2014 6:09:11 AM PST by devolve ("He's just 'too talented' to do what 'ordinary people' do." "Barry of Bungle" "Homo Electus")
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To: Old Sarge

I think if radical imans started turning up dead after each incident, things might calm down.


30 posted on 01/24/2014 6:17:48 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Rebelbase

“Those young muslims, they blow up so fast.”

I love that line!


31 posted on 01/24/2014 6:25:21 AM PST by JoyjoyfromNJ (everything written by me on FR is my personal opinion & does not represent my employer)
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To: JoyjoyfromNJ

Thank Goodness we traveled to Egypt several years ago. May God speed the Egyptisans in killing the violent moozlum subhumans.


32 posted on 01/24/2014 6:28:15 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: kingattax; Ray76
Oops, no new video on the horizon! The same video--that "we" had nothing to do with--will have to be pressed in service yet again.

HF

33 posted on 01/24/2014 7:03:05 AM PST by holden
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To: kristinn
Fourth bombing today in Cairo just occurred.

Via Twitter:

Breaking :- One killed in a fourth explosion - in Haram Street, Giza Cairo near Radobis cinema #Egypt

34 posted on 01/24/2014 7:06:50 AM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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More via Twitter:

According to a police official on TV, the 4th blast outside a movie theater was targeting a police convoy supposed to take that road.

35 posted on 01/24/2014 7:09:05 AM PST by kristinn (Welcome to the Soviet States of Obama)
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To: Deo volente

What difference, at this point, does it make?!?!


36 posted on 01/24/2014 7:25:41 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: kristinn; Old Sarge

This is a serious on-going attack. I wonder if it’s also connected to the announcement of a new trial date for Morsi.


37 posted on 01/24/2014 7:30:55 AM PST by livius
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To: Rebelbase

“Those young muslims, they blow up so fast.”

Ha! That’s Post of the Day material right there!


38 posted on 01/24/2014 7:59:58 AM PST by Batman11 (Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
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To: KGeorge

There was an article somewhere around here a couple weeks ago where Egypt was saying that the O admin was meddling for the Brotherhood.


39 posted on 01/24/2014 8:04:21 AM PST by dforest
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To: kristinn

I’m sure it’s nothing more than a reaction to a video some moslem hater posted on you tube.


40 posted on 01/24/2014 9:02:42 AM PST by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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