CAIRO - Egypt on Monday executed Hisham al-Ashmawy, described as the country's most dangerous Islamist militant, after he was convicted by a military court of orchestrating several attacks, three security sources said.
Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special forces officer, was transferred to Egypt from eastern Libya last year and has been long sought by Cairo on charges of being behind the high-profile attacks on security forces.
(Reporting by Haithan Ahmed and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan; Writing by Mahmoud Mourad; Editing by Alison Williams) ((mahmoud.mourad@thomsonreuters.com;))
