Egypt uncovers 'Israeli spy ring'

Egypt arrests 4 citizens over spying for Israel
CAIRO - Egypt's State Security says an Egyptian and two Israelis have been charged with recruiting agents in Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to spy for Israeli intelligence. Prosecutor Hisham Badawi in press conference Monday charged an Egyptian businessman with harming the country's national interests. Two Israelis were charged in absentia as well. Khaled Hassan, the suspect, was arrested in August. The disclosure comes just a day after authorities announced the discovery of a spy cell involved...

Egypt (also) is nabbing Israeli 'telecom spies'... recruiting for Lebanon & Syria
"..Egypt on Monday charged an Egyptian businessman and two Israelis with spying for Israel and trying to recruit operatives working for telecoms companies in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Officials arrested Tarek Abdel Rezek Hussein, the 37-year-old owner of an import-export firm, in August, according to a document shown to reporters by Egyptian state security attorney Hicham Badawi. The document alleged that Hussein had accepted $37,000 for providing the Israelis with information about Egyptians w...

No honor among thieves: Egypt arrests 4 citizens over spying for Israel
© Associated Press Detainees allegedly set up offices in Egypt, Britain, Israel, Gaza to record conversations, collect information about tourists in Sinai. Egyptian authorities arrested four suspects on suspicion of spying for Israel and plotting to damage The Economy by Kidnapping tourists, a security official said. The official revealed Sunday that the suspects, all Egyptian nationals, set up offices in Egypt, Britain, Israel, and Gaza to allegedly record officials' phone conversation...

Mideast news brief: Iraq approves new government
A day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki indicated that an announcement on revealing his cabinet choices would be postponed, dealing yet another blow to the 9-month long Iraqi election saga, today parliament unanimously approved his government. The change comes quickly after al-Maliki came out late last night with a partial list of choices for cabinet posts--which paved the way for government formation. Al-Maliki noted after the development that "I am very happy...What has happened t...

Israel sees new anti-tank missile threat from Gaza
By Dan Williams Jerusalem | Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:14am EST Jerusalem (Reuters) - Militants in Gaza used an advanced Russian-designed missile against an Israeli tank this month, Israel's Military chief said on Tuesday, underscoring how smuggled weaponry has improved Palestinian combat capabilities. Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi's disclosures about the amour-piercing attack followed an Israeli newspaper report that The Army planned to deploy the only tank battalion it has equipped with a new ...

Egypt charges businessman for spying for Israel
Cairo -- Egyptian authorities have charged a local businessman and two Israelis for recruiting agents in Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to spy for Israeli intelligence, a State Security prosecutor said Monday. Prosecutor Hisham Badawi told reporters that a businessman named Tarek Hassan was arrested in August and has now been charged with harming the country's national interests. Two other Israelis have been charged in absentia. Hassan allegedly received $7,500 dollars to search for potential age...

Israel to press Obama to free Israeli spy Pollard
Jerusalem — Israel’s Prime Minister says he will press President Barack Obama to release an Israeli spy imprisoned in the United States. Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement Tuesday he would ask the U.S. president soon "in a formal and public manner" to release former Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard. The United States imprisoned Pollard for life 25 years ago after he pleaded guilty to passing secrets to Israel. Some in Israel say his sentence was too harsh and have lobbied their gov...

Israel to press Obama to free Israeli spy Pollard
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Prime Minister on Tuesday said he would press President Barack Obama to release an Israeli spy who is serving a life sentence in the United States, a step that could reopen a case that has been a source of tension between the two allies for a quarter of a century. Benjamin Netanyahu said he would call for the release of former Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard "in a formal and public manner" in the coming days. The United States arrested Pollard in 1985 and sentenced him ...

Israel to press Obama to free Israeli spy Pollard
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Prime Minister on Tuesday said he would press President Barack Obama to release an Israeli spy who is serving a life sentence in the United States, a step that could reopen a case that has been a source of tension between the two allies for a quarter of a century. Benjamin Netanyahu said he would call for the release of former Navy analyst Jonathan Pollard “in a formal and public manner” in the coming days. The United States arrested Pollard in 1...

Cairo said no to nukes, cables reveal
Published: Dec. 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM India source of Bioterrorism? LONDON, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak turned down an offer for nuclear material that appeared on the black market after the Soviet Union collapsed, cables reveal. Cairo claims to be advocating a nuclear-free Middle East. Maged Abdelaziz, the Egyptian Envoy to the United Nations, told U.S. nuclear arms negotiator Rose Gottemoeller that Cairo was offered the material needed to produce a nuclear weapon. "(I)n an ...

Egypt, Sudan and Libya to confer ahead of key vote
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Leaders of Sudan’s two Most Powerful neighbors will be meeting with the president in Khartoum Tuesday to discuss the future of the country ahead of a Referendum that could well split Africa’s largest nation in two. The meeting comes less than three weeks before the people of south Sudan vote in a Jan. 9 Referendum on the Secession of their mainly animist and Christian south from the Arab and mainly Muslim north. The southerners, embittered and scarred by ...

Poll Reveals Frightening Popularity of Revolutionary Islamism
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Wikileaks: Egypt turned down nukes; UPDATED
Another Wikileaks document dump discloses that after the USSR disintegrated, Egypt turned down the opportunity to acquire Nuclear Weapons. Secret U.S. State Department documents leaked by WikiLeaks have revealed that after the dissolution of the Soviet bloc a number of countries offered Egypt nuclear weapons, but President Hosni Mubarak had refused the offer. According to a report in The Guardian, the Egyptian ambassador to the UN revealed the story to the Deputy U.S. Foreign Minister in charg...

WikiLeaks: Mubarak refused black market Soviet nukes
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused offers to buy Nuclear Weapons on the black market following the dismantling of the Soviet Union, a US diplomatic cable leaked to the Guardian by Wikileaks revealed. The revelation was made by Maged Abdelaziz, Egypt's UN ambassador, to US nuclear Arms Control negotiator, Rose Gottemoeller, in May of 2009 on the sidelines of a Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference in New York. RELATED: WikiLeaks: Iran recruiting Beduin to smuggle Gaza arms WikiLeaks: I...

Raymond Ibrahim: New book manifests wishful thinking about Muslim Brotherhoods power in Egypt
In a review of Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution by John R. Bradley in the Fall 2010 edition of Middle East Quarterly, Raymond Ibrahim identifies a chief error that analysts of the Middle East and Islam make all too often: assuming that people in Muslim countries want what Westerners want. Human nature, of course, is everywhere the same; but that doesn't mean that all people everywhere understand "freedom" or "peace" or "justice" in the same way. But Sharia i...

"They want the Christians to evacuate from the Middle East and leave. And this is what is happening every day."
An Egyptian priest dares to speak the truth about the Islamic supremacist agenda for Christians in the Middle East. "Priest says Muslim Extremists want to rid Middle East of Christians," from CNA, December 19 (thanks to all who sent this in): Cairo, Egypt, Dec 19, 2010 / 06:02 pm (CNA).- An Egyptian priest has explained that radical Muslims are trying to rid the Middle East entirely of Christians, who once comprised the largest religious group in the region. "This is what the Muslim fundament...

Egypt, Sudan and Libya to confer ahead of key vote
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Leaders of Sudan's two Most Powerful neighbors will be meeting with the president in Khartoum Tuesday to discuss the future of the country ahead of a Referendum that could well split Africa's largest nation in two. The meeting comes less than three weeks before the people of south Sudan vote in a Jan. 9 Referendum on the Secession of their mainly animist and Christian south from the Arab and mainly Muslim north. The southerners, embittered and scarred by nearly four decad...

Muslim website targets for death Copts in Egypt, Europe and North America
The website purports to "identify and name all of the Coptics throughout the world who hope to defame Islam," by doing things like proselytizing. "Canadian-Arab Christians targeted on website," from The Canadian Press, December 21 (thanks to Fr. E.): More than 100 Canadian-Arab Christians are listed on an Al-Qaeda affiliated website, apparently targeted because of their alleged role in attempting to convert Muslims. Some of those named say concerned Canadian intelligence officials have contac...

Lawyer: Jihad suspect denied ‘speech’ rights
An accused suburban Jihadist from Sudbury should be freed on bail, said his lawyer, who argued that the case is more about free Speech than Terrorism. Tarek Mehanna’s lawyer, Janice Bassil, filed a motion Friday seeking bail and impoundment of 2,000 pages of instant messages and e-mails — not because of their content, she said, but because public access to e-mail addresses and names could violate other people’s Privacy. Mehanna is charged with Conspiracy to kill in a foreign c...

Egypt Charges Another Suspect With Israel Spying
Cairo — Egyptian authorities have charged a local businessman and two Israelis for recruiting agents in Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon to spy for Israeli intelligence, a State Security prosecutor said Monday. Prosecutor Hisham Badawi told reporters that a businessman named Tarek Hassan was arrested in August and has now been charged with harming the country's national interests. Two other Israelis have been charged in absentia. Hassan allegedly received $7,500 dollars to search for potential ...

Stockholm Bomber's Mosque Website Links To Extremist Imam...Funny so does the Islamic Information Society of Calgary
"Preachers at the Luton Islamic Centre told last week how they had tackled Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, the Suicide Bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm last weekend, over his Extremist views. However, the centre's website carries a link to a lecture by Dr Bilal Philips , a Muslim preacher who was barred from entering Britain by the Home Secretary in July because of his Extremist views.... "His previous speeches include claims that there is no such thing as Rape in marriage and that the ...

Wikileaks: Israel fears regime change in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia
Well, no kidding. Israel’s relationship with Egypt and Jordan is “fraying,” warned the US in a year-old Wikileaks cable released late Sunday night. “Israel enjoys peace with Egypt and Jordan, but not with its people,” said the cable, which was sent from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv in November 2009, in advance of a visit to Israel by Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg. When Israel assesses US arms sales in the region, it approaches it from a worst-case scenario, believin

Egypt, Libya, Sudan consult ahead of south vote
FILE - In this Thursday, April 22, 2010 file photo, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, in full Military dress, gets out of his vehicle as he visits the Military Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. Leaders of Sudan's two Most Powerful neighbors will be meeting with the president in Khartoum Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 to discuss the future of the country ahead of a Referendum that could well split Africa's largest nation in two. The leaders of Egypt and Libya are in Khartoum for talks with Sudanese leaders ...

Cairo says Israel spy ring uncovered
CAIRO, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Egypt said it has uncovered an Israeli spy ring that planned to wiretap conversations of high-ranking Egyptian officials. Officials said the alleged spies include an Egyptian national -- Tarek Abdel Razzak, 37, and two Israeli Mossad agents identified as Diddy Moshe and Joseph Dimore, al-Arabiya Television Network said Tuesday. Razzak was reportedly arrested by Egyptian authorities in August. There has been no official Israeli response to the allegations. The network's re...

Jihad Threats and Attacks in the Christmas Season
The affair of Camilia Shehata, a Egyptian Christian woman allegedly being held against her will by the Church after converting to Islam, is at the center of a series of threats and attacks by jihadis during the Christmas season. MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor noted calls to violence and an upsurge in killings directed at Christian Minorities in the Middle East, such as the Copts and Iraqi churches, and Christians in the West. Participants on Jihadist forums outlined attacks against ...