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'7 , Violence in Egpyt continues, Syrian president says int'l 0 Islamic militants suspected peace conference unlikely Children among those killed in wedding day celebration CAIRO (AP) - The elderly, silver-haired Christian could hardly speak Monday, sitting stunned in a church where the evening before, susbected Islamic militants on a motor- cycle sprayed his family's wedding party with automatic weapons fire, killing his son, his wife's sister and two grand- daughters aged 8 and 12. "It's God's will. They are always beating us down. Every other day now, they do this," the 75-year-old Fahmy Azer Abboud said as he waited for their funeral to start. He spoke haltingly of his dead granddaughters, both named Mariam. "They were pure angels. They had the world's kindness inside them. They helped me and shared with me everything they had," Abboud said. The girls were waiting to enter the Church of the Virgin Mary in Cairo's Warraq district for the wedding of another of Abboud's granddaughters when the gunmen struck about 9 p.m. Sunday. The wounded included seven relatives, with his other son, Nabil, among them, he said. The shooting deepened panic among Egypt's minority Coptic Christians, already the target of centuries of discrimi- nation by the Muslim major- ity. It also raised fears that an insurgency by Islamic extrem- ists in the strategic Sinai Penin- sula and an increase in attacks in rural areas maybe shifting to the capital, a city of 18 million people already beset by crime and poverty. The violence by Islamic radi- cals has risen since the military deposed President Moham- med Morsi in July and cracked down on his Muslim Brother- hood and its allies. The attacks have targeted mainly security forces and Christians, whom the Islamists blame because of their strong support of Morsi's ouster. In Sinai, suspected jihadist fighters have stepped up violence against soldiers and police since the coup. Sunday's shooting also recalled an Islamic militant insurgency in the 1980s and. 1990s, when extremists waged a campaign against police, Christians and foreign tourists, trying to topple the govern- ment of now-ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Many fear a revival of that wave of violence. High-profile attacks blamed on militants have already begun to creep into Cairo. In September, the interior minis- ter, who heads the police, sur- vived an assassination attempt by a suicide car bombing. Ear- lier this month, militants fired rocket-propelled grenades on the nation's largest satellite ground station, also in the capi- tal. 8 9 5 6 Witnesses said a car blocked traffic outside the Coptic 8 3 7 church minutes before the shooting, allowing the gunmen on the motorcycle the space 3 they needed and giving them a relatively easy getaway. 6 8 5 1 The funeral of the four victims was attended by sev- eral thousand Christians who spelled into the street. Their grief was mixed with anger and 9 7 4 6 disbelief "With our blood and souls, 2 5 we will redeem-the cross," they chanted as the four coffins were about to be brought into the church. Addressing the mourners, 6 4 1 9 a young member of the choir said: "Even in these circum- stances, we can only talkof the heavens above and ask for the help of Christ." Crisis continues with more than 100,000 killed, 2-million displaced BEIRUT (AP) - Syria's presi- dent cast doubt Monday on the chances of holding a long- delayed international peace conference to end the country's civil war, saying the factors that would help such talks succeed do not currently exist. The United States and Russia have been trying for months to convene a conference in Geneva to negotiate a political solution to a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people and forced some 2 million more to flee the country. The U.N. chief has set mid-November as a target for the proposed gathering, but both Damascus and the opposi- tion are skeptical and no final date has been announced. President Bashar Assad brushed aside the renewed efforts to coax the government and its opponents to the negoti- ating table, telling Lebanon's Al- Mayadeen TV in an interview that "the factors that would help in holding it (the conference) are not in place if we want it to suc- ceed." He said it's not clear who would represent the opposition, or what credibility the opposi- tion's representatives would have inside Syria. "Who are the groups that will participate? What is their rela- tion with the Syrian people? Do they represent the Syrian people or they represent the country that made them?" Assad asked, alluding to his government's claim that the rebels are agents of Western and Arab powers. "There are many questions about the conference." For its part, Syria's fractured opposition has yet to decide whether to attend the proposed Geneva conference. The main Western-backed in Istanbul to decide whether to take part in the talks. One prominent faction within the Coalition, the Syrian National Council, has said it has no faith in negotiations with Assad's regime and won't participate in any Geneva negotiations. The ability of the Turkey- based Coalition to speak for the broader rebellion has long been in dispute, and fighters inside Syria - many of whom reject nego- tiations with the regime - have accused the opposition leaders in exile of being out of touch with reality on the ground. The Coali- tion's already strained credibility took a major hit last month when nearly a dozen prominent rebel groups publicly broke with the opposition umbrella group. More rebel brigades have since fol- lowed suit. Assad, meanwhile, has man- aged in the past six months to restore a sense of stability to his government's hold on power, shaken by losing large chunks of the country to the rebels in 2012. Dressed in a blue suit and exuding confidence, Assad used much of the interview to denounce Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for supporting the rebellion against him. But he also addressed the issue of his future in the country and presidential elections planned for 2014." "I don't see any reason that prevents me from running for the next elections," he said. "It is still early to talk about it. We can only discuss it at the time when the presidential elections date is announced." Much of the opposition says no peaceful transition is possible unless Assad leaves power. The president also said that he is willing to take part in peace talks, but reiterated his previ- ously stated position that he will not negotiate with the armed opposition unless they give up their arms first. stumbled repeatedly, while the violence inside the country has raged on, exacting a terrible toll on the civilian population. Residents of one besieged rebel-held suburb of Damascus issued an urgent plea Monday for the international commu- nity to save them.from starva- tion and constant bombardment after efforts to evacuate civil- ians from the area collapsed this week. For months, government troops have blocked food and supplies from entering the sub- urb of Moadamiyeh west of the capital, activists say. Around 3,000 residents of the suburb were able to flee the area late last month during a rare, temporary cease-fire. Aid agencies say Syrians across the country face diffi- culties getting food, but hun- ger in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus, largely surrounded by government territory, is par- ticularly acute. In an open letter circulated by the opposition's Coalition, Moadamiyeh residents pleaded with the international commu- nity for help. "Save us from death. Save us from the hell of Assad's killing machine," the letter said. The Coalition called on inter- national organizations to estab- lish a humanitarian corridor to allow food into the area. On Saturday, the United Nation's humanitarian chief Valerie Amos called for an "immediate pause" in clashes to allow civil- ians to leave. A spokesman for the Moad- amiyeh council, Qusai Zakarya, confirmed that local residents had sent the letter to the Coali- tion asking for help. "We are heading toward a definite destiny: starvation," he said via Skype, with the clap of shelling and the thumping of a helicopter audible in the back- ground. opposition umbrella group, International diplomatic the Syrian National Coalition, , efforts to broker a political reso- is scheduled to meet Nov. 1-2 lution to Syria's civil war have r'