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2015-06-30 | ||||||
The blast targeted the convoy of Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat and destroyed several cars in the eastern neighborhood of Heliopolis. Six other people were reported injured.
Barakat's death came a day before the second anniversary of the mass protests against former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy. Several groups have claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed hundreds of police and soldiers over the past two years. The Sinai-based, ISIS-affiliated State of Sinai -- formerly known as Ansar Bait El-Maqdis -- has claimed responsibility for the deadliest of these attacks. The Muslim Brotherhood has denied government allegations that it has been responsible for the violence. But in May, the group endorsed a call by clerics to fight the July 2013 coup that overthrew Morsy by all means possible, including retribution against army officers, police officers, judges, journalists and politicians whom the Muslim Brotherhood accuses of being complicit in the killing of innocent civilians.
"All Egypt's judges have been targeted since the trials of terrorist groups and their members began," Abdalla Fathy, the head of Egypt's judges' club, told CNN in May. "But there are specific people that confronted the Muslim Brotherhood regime, and these were the ones initially targeted." The prosecutor general's office is responsible for referring all criminal cases, including controversial terrorism and political cases, to court. "His life is always threatened," the prosecutor general's office told CNN when asked about threats just before his death was announced.
Health ministry front man Hossam Abdel Gaffar said eight people were maimed in the blast, including two civilians and five coppers guarding Barakat. Bomb squad chief General Mohammed Gamal told AFP it was either a boom-mobile or a bomb concealed underneath a vehicle. Barakat died of organ failure caused by his severe wounds, a doctor who treated him told AFP. On Monday two more people were killed in Sinai when a roadside kaboom struck a bus transporting provincial officials, police said.
A boom-mobile had parked in a street near Barakat's house, through which his convoy would pass every day on his way to work, the justice ministry said. When it went off, Barakat's vehicle, along with others, were swept away and quickly caught fire. | ||||||
Posted by:Steve White |
#2 See MANILA STANDARD > [UK-based Amnesty International] WATCHDOG SAYS EGYPT IN "ALL-OUT [Anti-Morsi, MusBros] REPRESSION" [mode]. * RELATED TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > EGYPT CLOSES DOWN 27,000 [alleged Pro-Radicalist, MIlitancy] MADRASSAS. VERSUS * TOPIX > [Ynet News] ISLAMIC STATE THREATENS TO TOPPLE HAMAS IN GAZA, + also Fatah. AFAIK Egypt still claims the Gaza as its sovereign territory which it only allows the PA to use - ditto wid JORDAN as per the FATAH-controlled WEST BANK. ANY ISIS/ISIL THREAT TO PA + GAZA IS BY DEFINITION A THREAT TO EGYPT [Jordan]. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-06-30 21:27 |
#1 Just go to military courts. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-06-30 04:49 |