The Egyptian government says have technically had a Palestinian group linked to al-Qaeda is behind the bomb attack perpetrated in a Coptic church in Alexandria that killed over 20 people on 1 January. "We have compelling evidence of their involvement in organizing and carrying out this despicable terrorist act," said Interior Minister Habib el-Adli in a speech broadcast on state television, during The Day of the police.It quoted the Palestinian group Army of Islam. In a statement, it was immediately denied the accusations of the Egyptian Interior Minister. The authorities had concluded that the attack was committed by a stranger carrying an explosive charge, he would have driven past the church of Saints when the faithful were coming out after Mass New Year.
President Hosni Mubarak had assured that "foreign hands" were behind the bombing two months after threats against Christians in Egypt launched an Iraqi branch of al-Qaida
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