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| Egypt changes story on ŽHezbollah cellŽ |
| 2009-04-17 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Cairo has leveled new accusations against Hezbollah, alleging that the movement plans to carry out a massive bomb attack in Tel Aviv. A new report published in the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Youm on Thursday alleges that the group recently arrested over supposed links to the Lebanese movement was planning to carry out "a suicide attack" in Tel Aviv. Cairo announced last week that its security forces had arrested a group of 49 people -- who it accuses of having links with the Lebanese movement -- on charges of plotting attacks in Egypt. Based on the Thursday report, however, the detainees had been on a mission to carry out a suicide attack in Tel Aviv. The claims come from alleged According to the report, the detainees said they had joined the "Hezbollah group" in Egypt in early 2008 after entering the country from the Gaza-Sinai border. Cairo had initially claimed that the detainees were Hamas supporters only to change its allegation shortly afterwards, saying they were plotting "terrorist attacks inside Egypt". Hezbollah has dismissed the Egyptian claims as politically motivated and aimed at undermining the group in line with Israeli policies. Differences between Fatah and Hamas have so far prevented the formation of a Palestinian national unity government and although Hezbollah has no problem with Fatah, relations between the two groups are not very warm. In 2006, Sultan Abu al-Einin, a Fatah leader in Lebanon, accused Hezbollah of curbing the movement attempts to launch cross-border attacks on Israel. According to Einin, Hezbollah on several occasions arrested Fatah gunmen who wanted to infiltrate into Israel and handed them over to Lebanese authorities. |
| Posted by:Fred |