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  • Egypt's Luxor governor resigns after controversy

    06/23/2013 6:43:54 PM PDT · by DeaconBenjamin · 3 replies
    France 24 ^ | 23/06/2013 | By Catherine Nicholson / Noémie ROCHE
    Adel al-Khayat, a member of a radical Islamist party linked to a massacre that killed 58 tourists in Luxor in 1997, resigned as the city’s governor on Sunday, just a week after his controversial appointment to the post by President Mohammed Morsi. The new governor of Egypt’s Luxor province, controversially appointed last week despite belonging to a hardline Islamist group that killed 58 tourists there in 1997, announced his resignation on Sunday. “We will not accept that one drop of blood be spilt because of a position that I did not personally aspire to at any time,” Adel Mohamed al-Khayat...