Egypt's State Prosecutor Accuses Hizbullah of Planning Attacks inside Egypt

Egypt's State Prosecutor Accuses Hizbullah of Planning Attacks inside Egypt
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
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DailyStar.com brings us this report this afternoon and it starts off like this… Egypt's state prosecutor accused Hizbullah of planning to carry out attacks inside Egypt on Wednesday, as Israel warned its citizens that they faced an "immediate and concrete" threat in the country. "The state prosecutor has received a statement from state security which shows that leaders from the Lebanese Hizbullah have called on its cadres to recruit members to its movement ... with the aim of carrying out acts of aggression inside the country," a statement from the prosecutor obtained by the AFP news agency said… Egyptian security forces are questioning a group of 49 men accused of smuggling weapons into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border on behalf of Hizbullah and Hamas. It is not clear when they were arrested, but a judicial source in Cairo confirmed that the prosecutor's allegations are linked to their detention…
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Egypt accuses Hizbullah of plotting attacks in country
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VOANews.com reports it this way… Egypt's state prosecutor says authorities have arrested 49 people suspected of planning attacks in Egypt on behalf of the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah… A statement from the prosecutor's office Wednesday said state security police have been questioning the men and believe that several of them were collecting intelligence for Hezbollah and recruiting Egyptians to join the group. It accused them of planning attacks on Egyptian targets… When the arrests were first reported Tuesday, Egyptian authorities said they had detained more than 40 people in connection with alleged plans to smuggle supplies to Hamas militants and other Palestinians in the Gaza Strip… A lawyer for the detainees, Montasser el-Zayat, says the people arrested include Egyptians, Lebanese and Palestinians…
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Egypt Accuses Hezbollah of Plotting Attacks

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More on this story in the weeks to come I’m sure…
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