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| Egypt Re-Arrests Hizbullah 'Spy' |
| 2011-10-04 |
| [An Nahar] Egyptian security authorities on Monday jugged a man suspected of spying for Hizbullah after he beat feet detention during the January uprising, the official MENA agency said. Hassan al-Manakhly, one of the 22-member Hizbullah cell, was tossed in the slammer after making an appearance on a live talk show Sunday night in Cairo, MENA said. Manakhly had been serving a 10-year jail sentence for spying for Hizbullah and "planning terrorist attacks inside Egypt". Egyptian authorities announced on February 3 that the 22 members of the cell had beat feet from a prison during the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... a week later. Hizbullah, which has had strained ties with Egypt for decades, had praised Egyptians on their "historic victory" after Mubarak's ouster. The Shiite group -- which opposes the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel -- sparked the ire of ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak in late 2008 by accusing him of complicity with Israel during the Israeli offensive in the Gazoo Strip. Egyptian courts last year sentenced 26 people, four in absentia, for allegedly planning attacks in Egypt on behalf of Hizbullah. |
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