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Egypt Says Muslim Brotherhood, Backed by Hamas, Killed Top Prosecutor
Source: New York Times
Egypt Says Muslim Brotherhood, Backed by Hamas, Killed Top Prosecutor
By NOUR YOUSSEFMARCH 6, 2016
CAIRO — Egypt said Sunday that members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, trained by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, carried out the bombing in Cairo that killed Egypt’s top prosecutor last summer.
Egypt’s interior minister, Maj. Gen. Magdi Abdel-Ghaffar, described at a news conference an elaborate plot to kill the prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, that he linked to exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Turkey and a Hamas training camp in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas immediately denied the charges on Sunday. In June, at the time of the bombing, the Muslim Brotherhood denied any involvement in the killing of the prosecutor.
“These statements are untrue and do not bode well for ongoing efforts to develop ties between Hamas and Cairo,” Samy Abu Zahri, a Hamas spokesman, said in a statement published on the group’s website.
Mr. Barakat, who spearheaded the prosecution and mass trials of thousands of Islamists, was killed when a car bomb containing more than 175 pounds of explosives was detonated as his vehicle drove through a Cairo suburb on June 29.
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By NOUR YOUSSEFMARCH 6, 2016
CAIRO — Egypt said Sunday that members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, trained by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, carried out the bombing in Cairo that killed Egypt’s top prosecutor last summer.
Egypt’s interior minister, Maj. Gen. Magdi Abdel-Ghaffar, described at a news conference an elaborate plot to kill the prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, that he linked to exiled Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Turkey and a Hamas training camp in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas immediately denied the charges on Sunday. In June, at the time of the bombing, the Muslim Brotherhood denied any involvement in the killing of the prosecutor.
“These statements are untrue and do not bode well for ongoing efforts to develop ties between Hamas and Cairo,” Samy Abu Zahri, a Hamas spokesman, said in a statement published on the group’s website.
Mr. Barakat, who spearheaded the prosecution and mass trials of thousands of Islamists, was killed when a car bomb containing more than 175 pounds of explosives was detonated as his vehicle drove through a Cairo suburb on June 29.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/07/world/middleeast/egypt-says-muslim-brotherhood-backed-by-hamas-killed-top-prosecutor.html
