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Africa North
Egypt: Hizbullah and Iran want to ignite the region
2011-02-10
[Jerusalem Post Front Page] Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah is "walking in the footsteps of his mentor," Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Egyptian Foreign Ministry front man Husam Zaki told the Saudi daily al-Watan on Wednesday.

The front man accused the two Shi'ite leaders of wanting "to ignite the region."

"Nasrallah does not have the right to accuse Egypt of being a follower of Israel and the US at a time when he works on shattering the unified front in Paleostine and Leb to implement Iranian agendas," Zaki said.

Hizbullah did not address comments from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, but it did say that one of its senior members who beat feet from an Egyptian prison during the unrest surrounding anti-government protests in that country was still in Egypt. Rooters had previously reported that Sami Chehab had arrived in Leb, according to London-based A-Sharq Al-Awsat Arabic language newspaper.

Hizbullah said that it would have properly welcomed Chehab, who was nabbed last year for allegedly plotting to attack targets in Egypt, if he had arrived in Leb.

Also on Wednesday, Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman
... Vice president of Egypt. From 1993 until his appointment to that office in 2011 he was Minister without Portfolio and Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate (EGID)...
said that terror organizations are the primary threat to the security of Egypt and that many operatives of al-Qaeda and other Jihadist organizations had beat feet from the country's prisons recently. Suleiman also told Egyptian paper Al-Ahram that those terrorist organizations had refused to stop the violence and unrest in Egypt, which he seemed to blame on them.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq called on Egyptians to free all those imprisoned by Mubarak's regime and called for holy war against Egyptian government, in a statement released to an Islamist website Tuesday, Rooters reported.

Calling for a strictly Islamic government in Egypt, the group said that "If the people of Islam die trying to reach this goal, it is better for them than having a tyrant who rules them with laws other than God's Sharia law," according to the report.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Not a surprise to most except those in power in the govmint.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-02-10 16:36  

#1  See also TOPIX/WORLDNEWS > SUEZ CANAL EYED BY HEZBOLLAH, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FOR SHUTDOWN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-02-10 00:18  

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