Coptic Cathedral bombing continues to dominate airwave: The nation’s talking heads continued wall-to-wall coverage of Sunday’s terror attack on the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. CBC’s Lamees Al Hadidy declared that the bombing underscores a flaw in the nation’s security apparatus, pointing to reports that the alleged suicide bomber, 22-year-old Mahmoud Shafik, was detained by police on weapons charges and then released in March 2014 (watch, runtime: 12:34). El Hadidy also said that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s speech yesterday delivered one of the strongest calls for national unity yet.

She noted that the president seemed to express frustration that the legal system has made it more difficult to prosecute suspects (watch, runtime: 3:11). Lamees agreed with a number of lawyers and legal commentators that terrorism cases need to run through the civilian judicial system, saying, “I’m not with referring terrorism cases to military trials, I’m with improving the normal judicial system to achieve swift and fair justice,” (watch, runtime: 46:49).

Yahduth fi Masr’s Sherif Amer focused on the Interior Ministry’s statement tying the terror cell responsible for the bombing to the Ikhwan leadership in Qatar.

Kol Youm’s Amr Adib praised the ability of the Sisi administration to identify the suicide bomber in one day. Adib dismissed doubts about the accuracy of the ministry’s identification of the bomber, saying that he had information that a DNA test confirmed the bomber’s identity (watch, runtime: 16:12). Adib ran what he said was a security-camera clip of the bomber entering the church (watch, runtime: 2:52).

A longer version of the video, which includes the subsequent blast, has gone viral (watch, runtime: 1:12).

Adib also covered news of the Egyptian Navy taking possession of a German submarine (watch, runtime: 8:22).

Ibrahim Eissa criticized statements from government officials promising to “avenge” those killed in the attack, saying a nation of laws would pursue justice (watch, runtime: 1:28). The suspendered-one also said it should have been the prosecutor general who announced the name of the suspected bomber rather than the president, as this may pressure investigators to simply corroborate El Sisi’s declaration (watch, runtime: 4:05). Eissa then spent the rest of the episode hammering what he said was Salafist hate-mongering about Copts (watch, runtime: 20:21).