[Gulf News] An Egyptian emergency state security court will start on August 23 trying 26 Arabs allegedly recruited by the Lebanese group Hezbollah to launch terror attacks in Egypt, prosecutors said on Sunday.The defendants, including four fugitives, face charges of planning to carry out terror attacks and spying for a foreign organisation - allegedly Hezbollah. Under Egyptian law, these charges are punishable by life imprisonment or death. The fugitives include Mohammad Qablan, a Hezbollah intelligence official whom the Egyptian authorities accuse of entering the country and recruiting the alleged operatives before leaving.
Egypt's Attorney General for the State Security Prosecution, Hesham Badawi, has said that investigations with the defendants-two Lebanese, five Palestinians, one Sudanese and 18 Egyptians - revealed that they had planned to attack foreign tourists in the Sinai Peninsula and ships using the Suez Canal.