“The bombing also showed the risk of militant Islam threatening the Egyptian state leadership, as it did in the 1980s and 1990s.” And the Obama Administration holds secret talks with the Muslim Brotherhood.
“Car bomb attack kills Egypt’s top public prosecutor,” by Ahmed Hassan and Omar Fahmy, Reuters, June 29, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
Egypt’s top public prosecutor was killed by a car bomb attack on his convoy on Monday, the most senior state official to die at the hands of militants since the toppling of an Islamist president two years ago.
There was no confirmed claim of responsibility. Security sources said a bomb in a parked car was remotely detonated as Hisham Barakat’s motorcade left his home, after saying earlier a car bomber had rammed into the convoy.
Judges and other senior officials have increasingly been targeted by radical Islamists opposed to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and angered by hefty prison sentences imposed on members of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Last month, the Islamic State militant group’s Egyptian affiliate urged followers to attack judges, opening a new front in an Islamist insurgency in Egypt..
Chief prosecutor Barakat was the highest-ranking state official to die in a militant attack since Sisi, a former army chief, ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in mid-2013 after mass protests against his rule.
Mursi, a Brotherhood leader who was freely elected as Egypt’s president in 2012, was sentenced this month to death over a mass jailbreak in 2011.
Monday’s attack stirred fears of yet more turmoil in Egypt, which has been struggling since the 2011 popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak to regain full-fledged stability and revive the economy of the Arab world’s most populous country.
The bombing also showed the risk of militant Islam threatening the Egyptian state leadership, as it did in the 1980s and 1990s….
miriamrove says
Ramadan bomb A thon in full swing. M
Fatts says
Evidently the work of a traitor or spy within in the ranks of Egypt’s government security apparatus.
mortimer says
Infiltration, conspiracy, betrayal, backstabbing, treachery and deceit are normative jihad. ‘Good’ Muslims do those things. ‘Bad’ Muslims sit at the sidelines and do not participate in jihad.
Westman says
A new tourist attraction in Egypt, a cradle of civilization; fireworks in the street. Sources indicate they will be more frequent and larger in scale. Get your tickets now before the price you’ll pay increases.
mortimer says
I predict Egypt will see many more arrests, trials and hangings of terrorists in 2015.
Moshe Akiva says
Could it be the Obama administration helps them to do this? It doesn’t look to be an everyday jihadi attack.
Eilidh says
This murder is not getting any real international coverage, seems to have been overshadowed by other events.
Angemon says
“Angered by hefty prison sentences”? Try “anything and everything” instead.