A senior member of Egypt’s former militant Islamist group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya has warned that liberal politicians and intellectuals who oppose President Mohammed Morsi’s latest constitutional declaration could face a campaign of targeted assassinations, Al Arabiya news reported.
Nageh Ibrahim, the ideologue of the Gamaa al-Islamiya, which seeks to establish Islamic rule in Egypt and took up arms against ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime in the 1980s, told Al Arabiya that his expectation “was based on an analysis of the political situation not on information.”
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