Authorities say Hamas if training and explosives for cell that assassinated Hisham Barakat final yearEgypt has accused exiled Muslim Brotherhood officials of conspiring with Gaza-based Hamas militants to assassinate the countrys chief prosecutor,Hisham Barakat, final year and have arrested several people in connection with the attack.
Barakat, and one of the architects of Egypts crackdown on dissent,was killed by a car bomb in Cairo in June 2015. He was the most senior state official assassinated since the violence during the overthrow in mid-2013 of President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack at the time. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com