Egyptian Ex-Interior Minister Habib el-Adly under investigation for masterminding Coptic church bombing on New Year's Eve
Probe starts on Adly’s reported role in Alex church attrack. Ex-minister suspected behind Alex church bombing. Egypt's general prosecutor on Monday opened probe on former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly's reported role in the New Year's Eve bombing of al-Qiddissin Church in Alexandria in which 24 people were killed, an Egyptian lawyer told Al Arabiya. Laywer Ramzi Mamdouh said he had presented a proclamation to Egyptian prosecutor Abd al-Majid Mahmud to investigate news media reports suggesting that the former interior ministry had masterminded the deadly church attack with the intent to blame it on Islamists, escalate government crackdown on them, and gain increased western support for the regime. Mahmud said the information contained in some reports were "serious."