Today the state security prosecutor has announced officially the arrest of 37 years old Tarek Abdel Razek Hussein Hassan “an Egyptian” in last August for alleged spying activities against the country. The state security prosecutor in the press conference held earlier today announced that Israeli “Eddie Moshe” and “Joseph Dimore” are wanted in the case. According to the state security press conference both of them are Mossad officers.
Abdel Razek owned an export and import company and was arrested last August while he was travelling to China. He used to work in one of the mobile phone operators “unnamed” . Allegedly he was sending reports to the Mossad about Egyptians working in the telecommunications field to be recruited to work with the Israelis or in another more espionage technical terms he was a spy recruiter.
According to information revealed at the press conference his activity was not limited to Egypt only but rather to neighbor countries “ Syria and Lebanon “ . Abdel Razek allegedly was on contact with a spy working for Israel in Syria and he was also recruiting spies from Syria and Lebanon.
Among the charges he is facing “ Engaging in hostile action against neighbor countries and endangering the diplomatic and political relations of Egypt with these countries”. The date of his trial has not been determined yet.
Now the only common factor between that incident and the rumored incident circulating in the local and regional media since last Friday aside of the Israeli factor is that Abdel Razek used to work in one of the mobile phone operator networks in Egypt. It seems that either we are in front of two different cases or the same case with more clearer details. Either ways the telecommunications sector is targeted with no doubt.
According to the Egyptian news websites Youm 7 and Masrawy more details will be revealed.
Of course Israel will officially deny any relation to the case yet this case can be good to the Egyptian Syrian relations and I hope that there is some kind of coordination between the Egyptian intelligence and the Syrian intelligence to catch that spy in Syria. “in fact logically that coordination was there since last August because as soon as the identity of Abdel Razek is revealed , his contact in Syria will pack his bags and leave the country as soon as possible.”
I am still waiting for the Mobinil final press release about that incident. Today most newspapers stated on behalf of unnamed official source in the network has denied any relation to the incident mentioned in Sawt Al Oma. I really respect the company for its prompt reply and I think today they will issue their press statement and insh Allah I will publish it here.
I think that this is the third announced espionage case in Egypt related to Israel in the last 5 years , we have got the Attar case and after it nuke Saber case.
Despite the good patriotic intentions of the GIS in protecting our interests , I have to wonder why a case from August “which means Abdel Razek was under the GIS for some time before that” is announced n December. I do not know why I am drawing a connection between that revelation now and the Wikileaks cables revelations about the GIS spying activities in Iran and Syria. There is no doubt that despite what the official media claims the GIS is harmed with those cables “regardless of its authenticity” in Egypt and outside it in the Arab world especially in Syria thus it will be more than great to prove that the GIS is our old GIS we are all proud of and love . Some of the espionage cases are announced except to serve certain important political and security messages, this is case I believe personally among these cases.
Was he working with the shark?
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