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| Anger in southern Egypt over Islamist governor |
| 2013-06-17 |
| Egyptian tourism workers and residents of the ancient city of Luxor are voicing anger after an Islamist linked to a former Islamic militant group that carried out the city's deadliest terrorist attack, killing nearly 60 tourists in the 1990s, was appointed governor of their province. Workers and Luxor politicians said Monday they plan to seal off the office of the governor to prevent Adel el-Khayat from entering. El-Khayat belongs to the Construction and Development party, the political arm of Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurgency against the state in the 1990s, attacking police, Copts and tourists. In 1997 the group killed 58 tourists visiting Luxor's Hatshepsut temple. The group has since forsworn violence. El-Khayat was appointed Sunday by Islamist President Mohammed Morsi among 17 new governors. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 truly remarkable after the nov 1997 massacre in which many of the dead were found to have been mutilated with knives and/or axes, the gamaa islamiya (the Islamic gang or the islamic group) had several responses when public opinion condemned the massacre - we just meant to take them hostage, some of our gang got out of control - it was a break-away faction of our gang when those excuses didn't work they tried these - the Jews did it - Mubarak's guys did it to make us look bad - people were killed somewhere else and brought here to make us look bad |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-06-17 17:40 |