[fanfan]

Egyptian denies spying in Toronto


Cairo claims he was Mossad agent
Feb 25, 2007 04:30 AM
Jano Charbel in Cairo and Isabel Teotonio in Toronto

An Egyptian charged with spying on local Arabs in Toronto for the Israeli secret service denied the allegations yesterday in a Cairo courtroom and claimed a confession was forced out of him.

Mohamed Essam Ghoneim el-Attar, a 31-year-old Canadian citizen, flashed a victory sign with his fingers and pleaded not guilty on the first day of his trial.

"I was pressured by the security apparatuses into giving confessions," Attar told the panel of three judges at the Emergency State Security Court.

"I deny all charges levelled against me from beginning to end."

Attar was arrested at Cairo airport on Jan.1 after arriving from Canada to visit family. However, news of the arrest was only made public earlier this month when Egyptian authorities said Attar had confessed to being a spy for the Mossad, while living in Turkey and Canada. According to prosecutors, he also implicated three other men in the alleged spy ring – two of whom were recently reported to be living in Toronto.

Three Israelis – Daniel Levi, Kemal Kosba and Tuncay Bubay – were charged with Attar, but they remain at large and are being tried in absentia. Egypt has asked Interpol to arrest them, while Israel has dismissed the charges as baseless.

Attar is charged with harming Egyptian national interests by supplying the Mossad with information; receiving $56,000 in Canadian and U.S. currencies for information on Arabs and Egyptians living in Turkey and Canada and providing his co-accused with that information.

The bizarre case against Attar has been outlined in Egyptian reports and a government dossier of more than 300 pages.

He is alleged to have converted from Islam to Christianity around the time he became a spy; moved to Canada where he, an admitted homosexual, married four men and used his job at a CIBC branch in Toronto to spy on financial transactions, including some that involved a Saudi Prince. Attar is also alleged to have recruited Egyptians, Syrians and Iraqis in Canada to work for the Mossad.

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more at link

[Oorang]

'Non-Specific' Terror Threat Made Against LAX
Feb 25, 2007

LOS ANGELES A "non-specific" terror threat was made against Los Angeles International Airport Saturday night.

Airport officials are tight-lipped about the unspecified threat, which was received about 8 p.m. Officials have not shut down any airport operations as a result, and no flights were canceled or delayed, said Nancy Castles of Los Angeles World Airports. The threat was "non-specific," Castles said. Due to an ongoing investigation, she would not say who made the threat or how it was delivered.

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_056024030.html

IDF discovers LAW missiles in Nablus
02.25.07

An IDF force discovered an explosives lab in Nablus Sunday, and in it a LAW missile, five pipe bombs, one large explosive, and four bags of fertilizer used to prepare bombs. Border Guard sappers are operating at the scene in order to blow up the lab.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3369456,00.html

Mobile call traced to Saudi Arab
Gulf Sheikhs too join terror funding in J&K

JAMMU, Feb 21: Terror funding by some oil rich Saudi Arabia businessmen has surfaced during questioning of Pakistani militants in Kot Bhalwal jail. Telephone numbers of Gulf based Sheikhs, who had been funding militancy through hawala money, have also been ascertained by police from data obtained through SIM cards, recovered from the detenues.

Ongoing investigations in large scale SIM cards, majority of them belonging to a private player, have revealed that more SIM cards of the company had been procured by militants on the name of non-existent Army personnel of 56 APO.

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http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/07feb22/news.htm#3

[Cindy]

That's interesting and thank you fanfan.
I wonder where the other spies are now?