Six Egyptian Soldiers Shot Dead In Cairo

[Purveyor]

Cairo (AFP) – Gunmen killed six soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint Saturday in a brazen attack which the military blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood movement of Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

The attack came two days after gunmen killed a soldier in Cairo, as militants once based in the Sinai Peninsula increasingly widen attacks that have killed more than 200 security men since the army overthrew Morsi last July.

The assailants opened fire on military policemen Saturday as they were finishing their morning Muslim prayers and then planted two bombs to target first responders, the military said in a statement.

The health ministry said six soldiers were killed.

Live television footage showed military sappers safely detonate a bomb near the checkpoint in the northern neighbourhood of Shubra al-Kheima.

more...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/15/five-egyptian-soldiers-shot-dead-in-cairo/

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. The military blames everything on the Muslim Brotherhood.

Hell, it even blamed them when they forced it to gun them down by the hundreds in the streets.