Morsi Prosecutor Assassinated

Egypt’s public prosecutor was assassinated today by a bomb in Cairo. A bomb was reportedly placed in a parked car near Hisham Barakat’s convoy.

Barakat, who has referred ousted president Mohammed Morsi and thousands of

other Islamists for trial, is the highest-profile Egyptian official to be assassinated since the Arab Spring. Hundreds of them—including Morsi—have been sentenced to death. Read more at BBC.

{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}