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Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year’s Mass, 21 dead | Antiwar Newswire

Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year’s Mass, 21 dead | Antiwar Newswire: "A powerful bomb exploded in front of a crowded Coptic Christian church a half hour into the New Year early Saturday, hitting worshippers emerging from a holiday Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria and killing at least 21 people in an attack that raised suspicions of an al-Qaida role.

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