Security official: Egypt's state prosecutor comes under bomb attack in eastern Cairo suburb

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

CAIRO — A security official says a bomb attack has targeted Egypt's prosecutor general in an eastern Cairo suburb but that he survived the assassination attempt.

The official says Monday's attack targeted Hisham Barakat's convoy as it was driving through Heliopolis district, heading to downtown.

The prosecutor's two security guards and a civilian were wounded. The official says it's not clear if Barakat was hurt or not. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the first major assassination attempt on a high government official since the 2013 attack on the then-interior minister. That attack came in the aftermath of the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.


Read more: http://www.startribune.com/egypt-s-state-prosecutor-comes-under-bomb-attack-in-cairo/310606851/

[TexasTowelie]

1. Pictures at the following link:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/egypt-state-prosecutor-motorcade-hit-bomb-attack-cairo-150629083650272.html

[Bosonic]

2. Egypt state prosecutor dead after bombing: ministers

#BREAKING Egypt state prosecutor dead after bombing: ministers

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/615505942046752768

[Comrade Grumpy]

3. Did they kill him or not? Two links, two different results.

[Comrade Grumpy]

4. Al Jazeera reporting he has been killed.

He presided over the persecution of the Muslim Brotherhood. Payback is a bitch.

[6chars]

5. this could go from bad to much worse

really hope egypt doesn't turn into syria, but fear that possibility is lurking in the background and payback cycles will not help avert that.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Probably not likely to turn into Syria.

1. Egypt doesn't have the sectarian dynamic that Syria has. The Shia/Sunni divide is pretty irrelevant there. Egypt is not ruled by representatives of a minority sect, like Syria is.

2. There are not a lot of foreign powers trying to overthrow the Egyptian government, unlike Syria. The Syrian "revolution" would have smothered in its crib if not for the baleful role of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Gulf monarchies, and Turkey, which are apparently happy to see Syria destroyed if it means the end of Assad--or, apparently, even if it doesn't. The US and other Western powers also get some credit for the destruction of Syria. We helped. And are still helping.

3. We like good old military-ruled Egypt. Washington was just fine with Mubarek, and despite a couple of harrumphs over human rights violations, it's pretty fine with Al Sisi.