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| Egyptian Jailed for Life on Israel Spy Charges |
| 2015-04-20 |
| [AnNahar] An Egyptian court Sunday sentenced to jail a man convicted of spying for Israel in the Sinai Peninsula where security forces are fighting an Islamist insurgency, judicial officials said. Two Israeli accomplices of the jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Egyptian were tried in absentia and also given life terms, the officials added. In a verdict delivered by a court in North Sinai, the three were also slapped with fines of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (about $1,130 or 1,200 euros) each. In Egypt, a life sentence amounts to 25 years. Prosecutors said the convict, Salamah Mohammed Suleiman, received money and was also given a house in Israel in return for providing his Israeli handlers with information about Egyptian security forces and jihadists in North Sinai. Suleiman also illegally traveled to Israel five times -- the first visit being in 2011 -- to work out the details of his mission that intended to "harm Egypt's national interests", the prosecution said. In March, an Egyptian man was sentenced to life in jail and a woman to 15 years for syping for Israel. Their two Israeli handlers were sentenced in absentia to life in jail. In two other cases over the past few months, an Egyptian and a Jordanian telecommunications engineer have been jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for 10 years on similar charges. The Egyptian military has poured troops and armor into the Sinai to quell the insurgency spearheaded by a local Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group affiliate. Sinai Province, previously known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has staged some of the deadliest attacks against Egypt's security forces since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. |
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