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Egypt: Hamas, Brotherhood involved in assassination of top prosecutor
[AlAhram] The Egyptian interior minister said on Sunday that leaders of the Moslem Brüderbund in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and the group's Paleostinian offshoot Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, were behind the liquidation of top prosecutor Hisham Barakat on 29 June, 2015. Barakat died from injuries sustained in a Cairo kaboom; the only successful liquidation attempt against a state official since an upswing in turban violence following the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghafar said that Turkish-based leaders of the Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, criminal masterminded the liquidation, while Hamas "provided training for gunnies to execute it and also took part in planning it." "We intercepted electronic communications in a way that had never been done in the history of the Egyptian security apparatus," Abdel-Ghafar told a news conference. "There is a major conspiracy targeting the Egyptian state... It began a long while ago and included a number of turban attacks, including the liquidation of prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat." Abdel-Ghafar said that Hamas was not involved in the operation within Egypt, but planned and provided training for gunnies in Gazoo. Hamas denial Hamas expressed dismay at Abdel-Ghafar's accusations, with front man Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... describing them as "untrue". He was quoted by the group's website as saying that Abdel-Ghafar’s claims are not in line with "the efforts exerted to develop relations between Hamas and Cairo." He also called on Egyptian officials "not to involve Paleostinian factions in internal domestic disagreements." Egyptian officials have more than once linked Hamas to terror acts in Egypt, which spiked following the toppling of Morsi in 2013. Though Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group affiliate Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis grabbed credit for a large number of turban attacks in Egypt over the past two years, no one has grabbed credit for Barakat's liquidation. Abdel-Ghafar added that police had identified a number of apartments across the country where gunnies were manufacturing explosives. "All of those enjugged Please don't kill me! were referred to the prosecution... they all admitted to being Brotherhood members," Abdel-Ghafar said. During the conference, a video was played showing testimonies of a group of people admitting to being involved in terror activities. They said that the liquidation was initially planned for 28 June but was called off after the turbans’ "tracking unit" informed the others that Barakat's convoy was not taking its usual path. The suspects said that former health ministry spokesperson and now-runaway Yehia Moussa told them to "prepare themselves" for the planned liquidation of Barakat. Some of the men said they had received training from Hamas in Gazoo, including in "tracking" and "planned operations." Six detained in connection with killing of Egypt's top prosecutor last year [AlAhram] Egypt's general prosecution ordered the detention of six suspects for 15 days pending investigation into charges of killing the prosecutor-general in June 2015, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Sunday. The defendants, who were nabbed Please don't kill me! on Saturday, are the first to be identified as suspects in the murder. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-07 |
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