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After the explosion, angry Coptic Christians clashed with police and local Muslims, reportedly throwing stones and targeting a nearby mosque.

...Christians were seen chanting beside a burnt-out car in front of the church: “We sacrifice our souls and blood for the Cross.”

Al-Qaeda in Iraq has also been conducting a campaign against Christians, following the reported conversion to Islam by two Egyptian Christian women in order to divorce their husbands. The group said the women were being held against their will by the Coptic Church.

Alexandria, Egypt’s second-largest city with a population of about four million, has seen sectarian violence in the past.

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