Bombing opens vein of Christian anger in Egypt

Bombing opens vein of Christian anger in Egypt: "CAIRO -- The New Year's Day suicide bombing of a church that killed 21 people has opened up a vein of fury among Egypt's Christians, built up over years of what they call government failure to address persistent discrimination and violence against their community.

Christian protests spread to Cairo from the northern city of Alexandria where the attack took place. Late Sunday, riots erupted outside the cathedral-headquarters of the Coptic Church after the country's top Muslim religious figures and government officials met with Pope Shenouda III.

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Frankenbombers are 'new kind of terrorism': Al Qaeda hopes to surgically implant bombs into thugs

Frankenbombers are 'new kind of terrorism': Al Qaeda hopes to surgically implant bombs into thugs: "WASHINGTON - Jihadis bent on concocting a 'new kind of terrorism' are brainstorming how to surgically implant explosives to make undetectable Frankenbombers.

'What is your opinion about surgeries through which I can implant the bomb ...inside the operative's body?' an apparent mad surgeon recently asked an online forum used by Al Qaeda affiliates.

He called on bombmakers and doctors to cook up the perfect solution to murder 'larger numbers of unbelievers and apostates.'

'I am waiting for the interaction of the experienced brothers to connect the two sciences together and produce a new kind of terrorism, Allah willing,' he wrote, according to a translation by terror experts at the SITE Intelligence Group.

The scheming comes amid controversy over body scanners and pat-downs in airports that some Americans complain are too invasive. The ideas for a 'surgically booby-trapped martyrdom seeker' were chillingly concise for the doctor of death monitored by SITE.

Stitching a bomb into the abdominal cavity made of plastic or liquid explosives - such as semtex or PETN - was judged the best method.

'It must be planted near the surface of the body, because the human body absorbs shocks,' advised one terrorist.

Prior to the attempted destruction of a Detroit-bound flight last Christmas by accused underwear bomber Farouk Abdulmutallab, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula almost assassinated a Saudi prince with a bomb believed to have been concealed inside a body cavity; it was recently clarified that it was the first attempt at an explosive hidden in undies.

Unproven body cavity bombs worry security agents, though 'no one has figured out how to actually do it,' said a counterterror official.

Last month, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said his agency wouldn't do cavity checks because secondary screening procedures and technology can find fuses and detonators, which must be outside the body.

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Barack Obama's grandmother 'prays he converts to Islam' - Telegraph

Barack Obama's grandmother 'prays he converts to Islam' - Telegraph: "Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother has said she prayed for the US president to convert to Islam, according to reports.

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