Egypt says Israeli spy arrested - Middle East

/201161216150180337.html

  • Egypt says Israeli spy arrested - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
    http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2011/06/201161216150180337.html

    Egypt’s official MENA news agency says authorities have arrested an Israeli national on charges of working for the Israeli spy agency, Mossad.

    Judge Hesham Badawi of the supreme state security prosecution ordered the man’s detention for 15 days pending investigations into alleged “spying on Egypt with the aim of damaging its economic and political interests”, MENA said on Sunday.

    Egyptian state television said the “Mossad officer” had arrived in Egypt shortly after the start of the January 25 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the country’s long-time president, seeking to “incite chaos and sectarian strife”.

    Ça n’est pas forcément vrai (mais il n’y a non plus de raison pour que ce soit faux), mais ce qui est déjà très intéressant, c’est que le nouveau régime égyptien arrête un israélien, le qualifie d’espion, et le dénonce comme voulant promouvoir l’« agitation confessionnelle ».

    Si les égyptiens eux-mêmes se mettent à dire ce genre de choses...