Jihadist group claims Egypt police general killing
1/29/2014 10:43:13 AM
An Al-Qaeda inspired group said it carried out the assassination on Tuesday of a top Egyptian police general and threatened similar attacks against the army chief and interior minister.
General Mohamed Saeed, an aide to interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim, was gunned down as he left his home in a west Cairo neighborhood on Tuesday morning.
Claiming responsibility in a statement posted on a jihadist website, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or Partisans of Jerusalem, said it carried out the killing.
Addressing Ibrahim and army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the group warned: "Vengeance is coming."
The interior minister was already the target of an abortive assassination attempt claimed by the group last September in which a bystander was killed.
General Mohamed Saeed, an aide to interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim, was gunned down as he left his home in a west Cairo neighborhood on Tuesday morning.
Claiming responsibility in a statement posted on a jihadist website, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or Partisans of Jerusalem, said it carried out the killing.
Addressing Ibrahim and army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the group warned: "Vengeance is coming."
The interior minister was already the target of an abortive assassination attempt claimed by the group last September in which a bystander was killed.