Alleged Hizbullah cell in Egypt accused of Gaza arms smuggling

[Ian David]

Apr 9, 2009 14:23 | Updated Apr 9, 2009 14:32
Alleged Hizbullah cell in Egypt accused of Gaza arms smuggling

Forty-nine suspected Hizbullah agents arrested in Egypt Wednesday are also accused of smuggling weapons to Hamas in Gaza.

AFP quoted an Egyptian judicial source as saying that the suspects allegedly rented homes in Rafah, on the Gaza border. The Egyptian attorney-general accused the 49 of planning "hostile operations.

Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud said that the men were looking to "destabilize Egypt's general security" and had been assigned by Hizbullah to observe and collect intelligence from the villages along the Egypt-Gaza border, tourist sites in the Sinai, and the Suez Canal.

"They have been provided with quantities of explosives and the means to make bombs," said the statement, adding that they were tasked with "spreading Shi'ite ideology" inside Egypt.

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