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| Libya's Tripoli government says UAE soldier arrested for spying |
| 2015-11-12 |
| [Jpost] Libya's self-declared government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... has tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a United Arab Emirates soldier and placed him under investigation for spying after finding evidence among his documents and on his computer, authorities said on Wednesday. The soldier, identified as Yusef Saqer Ahmad Mubarak, was arrested in Tripoli after intelligence was uncovered about his activities, the head of the attorney general's investigation department, Sadiq Al-Sour, told Rooters. "He is still under investigation by the public prosecution after all information from his laptop and documents has shown that Mubarak was spying for a foreign country," he said. Libya is caught in a conflict between two rival governments and their armed factions, an internationally recognized one in the east and an unofficial one in Tripoli. Each accuses neighboring countries of backing the other. Tripoli's government has accused the United Arab Emirates and Egypt of supporting its rivals. The United States said last year the UAE and Egypt staged air strikes against Libyan Islamists, but the UAE dismissed those allegations. The arrest comes after Tripoli officials complained of UN bias in peace negotiations with their rivals, following reports the UN envoy for Libya would be leaving for a job with a United Arab Emirates diplomatic academy. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 An Nahar has Dubai's response: Dubai police chief Khamis al-Muzainah said in a late Wednesday statement on his force's official Twitter account that the allegations were "false and far away from truth." "The arrested suspect's relation with the police had ended five years ago (in 2010) when he was dismissed from military service for his involvement in a moral case," said Muzainah. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-12 17:35 |