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Africa North
Egyptian police arrests 20 over claiming responsibility for top prosecutor's assassination
2015-07-02
[AlAhram] A Facebook page titled 'The Popular Resistance' claimed the liquidation of the chief prosecutor, though some security experts believe the operation bears the hallmarks of Sinai Province

Twenty people have been incarcerated
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
by security forces on Wednesday over accusations they are behind the Facebook page dubbed "The Popular Resistance" which grabbed credit for the liquidation of Egypt's prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat on Monday.

Al Ahram Arabic website reported on Wednesday that the administrators of the pages were located in different places in Cairo and Giza. Some "criminal research units" affiliated with the ministry of interior are chasing others over the same accusations.

Units from the National Security Agency are raiding some alleged terrorist-linked hotbeds in Cairo's outskirts following Barakat's liquidation near his home in the upscale district of Heliopolis.

Nine people, including two drivers and five members of the security forces, were maimed when a bomb hit the prosecutor's convoy.

Barakat's death marks the first successful liquidation attempt against a state official since violence erupted following former president Mohammed Morsi's ouster in July 2013.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her.
Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?...

security experts doubt that the "The Popular Resistance" Facebook page is behind the attack, as they believe that the technical implementation of the kaboom suggested that it might have been conducted by the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
-affiliated jihadist group Sinai Province, previously known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis.

On Monday, the group released a video that shows their attack on judges in North Sinai's Al-Arish in May. A title at the bottom of the screen reads "Assassination of five of the tyrant's judges."

The Sinai Province grabbed credit for the liquidation attempt against former interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim, who escaped unscathed in September 2013. The kaboom on Ibrahim in Cairo left one civilian dead and 21 injured, including six coppers and a child.
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