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Egypt Blames Muslim Brotherhood in Qatar for Involvement in Cairo Cathedral Attack

December 13, 2016
A nun cries as she stands at the scene inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral, following a bombing, in Egypt December 11, 2016. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior revealed on Monday night how they believe the Cairo Cathedral terrorist attack, which killed 24 people, was organized and carried out. In a statement, the Ministry of Interior said that a terrorist cell is led by Mohab Mostafa El-Sayed Kassem (aka The Doctor), a man born in 1986 and who is currently on the run. The terrorist cell, which they Ministry said had links to the ISIS-affiliated Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis, carried out the attack. According to police, Kassem travelled to Qatar in 2015 and met with leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood who encouraged and convinced him to carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt. The statement accused the Muslim Brotherhood in Qatar of providing financial and logistics support in order to harm Egypt’s national security and create divisions in society. Upon returning to Egypt, Kassem followed orders to travel to North Sinai where he was connected to terrorists belonging to the IS-affiliated Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis there who trained him how to use weapons and how to make explosives. This claim repeats earlier ones of the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement with ISIS. Following his training, police say that…

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