.... Just this morning, a jihadist group in the Sinai, Ansar Beit-Al Maqdis, issued a statement claiming responsibility for a car bombing on Saturday in the port city of Ismailia that took at least six lives.
In its statement it blamed army intelligence for fueling a war against Islamists that only benefits “Christians and Jews.”
The identities of the two shooters at the Virgin Mary church are not known, nor is their affiliation. The obvious suspects are radical Islamists, but in Egypt the logic of conspiracy often trumps common sense and leaves open the possibility in many minds that the killers were agents provocateurs serving the interests of the Al-Sisi regime.
Probably it will take more than the death of two little girls to turn the Egyptian people massively and decisively against the remnants of the Islamists, and demand of Al-Sisi a better, more peaceful strategy for keeping order. [The Daily Beast] Read more
