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| By Associated Press February 4, 2007 |
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Egypt's state security prosecutor on Saturday charged a 26-year-old Egyptian and three Israelis with allegedly spying for Israel and harming national interests, a security official said.
The official said Mohammed al-Attar, a former student at Al-Azhar University, was arrested Jan. 1 after returning to Cairo from abroad. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media.
Al-Attar allegedly left Egypt in 2001 for Turkey, where he met the three Israelis who allegedly recruited him to collect information about Egyptians and other Arabs living in Turkey and Canada in return for money, according to the official.
Al-Attar was then ordered by the Israelis to move to Canada in 2003 to collect information about Egyptians and Arabs living in Canada, according to the official. For his mission, al-Attar allegedly received 65,000 U.S. and Canadian dollars from the three Israelis, the official said.
The three Israelis, identified by the state news agency, MENA, as Daniel Levi, Kemal Kosba and Tuncay Bubay, remain at large. Kosba and Bubay also hold dual Turkish citizenship, MENA said.
A message left with the Israeli Embassy in Cairo was not immediately returned. MENA and the official could not immediately provide further details about the allegations. |
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