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Egyptian Police Investigating Coptic Christian Double Murder
AHN ^ | Joseph S. Mayton

Posted on 10/07/2007 9:35:15 PM PDT by george76

Two Coptic Christians were found dead in a village 240 miles south of Cairo, police said. They added that they were investigating the incident as possible sectarian violence in the same village that witnessed some of the worst massacres seven years ago.

Police sources said they were investigating the deaths of Sadeq Ishaq, 45, and Karam Andraus, 40, who were shot to death on their farm in El Kosheh...

In 2007, a dispute between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the village escalated into a full scale battle as armed gangs took up weapons against each other. The violence left 21 Christians and one Muslim dead.

Coptic Christians are generally estimated to make up around 10 percent of Egypt's population...

(Excerpt) Read more at allheadlinenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: cairo; christians; coptic; copticchristians; egypt; islam; jihad; muhammadsminions; religionofpeace; rop; trop

1 posted on 10/07/2007 9:35:20 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

I would suggest they look for a young 20-30 something middle eastern Muslim man named Muhammed...ugh, there I go again profiling again.


2 posted on 10/07/2007 10:06:08 PM PDT by americanophile
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