Posted on 06/10/2002 1:47:40 PM PDT by krodriguesdc
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (AP) A state security court convicted an Egyptian of offering to spy for the Israeli intelligence service and sentenced him to 10 years in prison at hard labor.
Magdy Anwar Mohamed Tawfiq, 52, was convicted of trying to contact a foreign country with the intent of harming national interests. His lawyer had argued Tawfiq was mentally unstable and questioned his claims of knowledge of important information about past hijackings, including the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
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