Israeli green light for the deployment of a thousand Egyptian troops in Sinai
Mubarak, for the second time in the dock and stop the transmission of the trial sessions
Cairo - AFP, DPA
Cairo Criminal Court headed by Judge Ahmed filed on Monday (August 15 / August 2011) to postpone the trial of the deposed Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal to the fifth session of the September / September. The Court decided to include the issues of Mubarak and former interior minister, Habib al-Adli in the killing of demonstrators to each other so that proceedings are conducted in a single unit.
The President of the Court, the Court decided, in order to preserve the public interest, to stop broadcasting until sentencing. Also decided to present proof of defense requests for civil rights plaintiffs and to consider the requests made by defense attorneys for civil rights is an integral part of the minutes of the session yesterday. And decided to authorize the defense attorneys present, with the completion of the civil right of access to papers and invitations Ahrazhma told to defend the present defendants complete access to the papers. It also cost the prosecutor to inform a number of witnesses to attend the meeting.
The lawyer for Mubarak and his family had asked to postpone the issue time limit «appropriate and wide» For all the papers. At the beginning of the meeting, said President of the Court: «We would like to Nwala our meetings every day as we announced previously, but what happened yesterday with the court will not be able to play with this great work». The session-Adli and six of his aides yesterday for the murder of the protesters had witnessed a state of chaos and the modern mass by civil rights lawyers, prosecutors, the judge, forcing him to adjourn the meeting four times, then postponed to the fifth session of September. Also caused chaos inside the hall yesterday to delay the entry of the court.
Mubarak and seemed more exhausted from the first session, despite reports that during the last days of his health improved, it was noted a blind eye for long periods. Appeared Mubarak, dressed blue, although it is accepted that the color of the uniform pre-trial detention is white, while wearing his two sons, dressed in white color and a lamb Msahvehma as in the previous session, and remained standing beside him, in an attempt likely to prevent cameras from taking more pictures of him. Mubarak arrived to the headquarters of the trial in an ambulance, and sent down on a bed of moving. At the beginning of the meeting, the club raised on Mubarak, an individual «exists» and the response of his two sons.
Is being tried in absentia in the case, the businessman, Hussein Salem, who was close to former president on charges of bribery. And Salem were arrested weeks ago in Spain on charges of money laundering there. The plane landed near the headquarters of the Court under Mubarak and Egyptian television showed pictures of Mubarak (83 years), which is transferred to a hospital bed outside the ambulance.
On the other hand, the Egyptian army began yesterday at dawn sweep in the northern Sinai in search of elements of the armed Islamist group suspected in the bombings, claimed responsibility for the gas export pipeline to Israel and an attack on a police station in the town of El Arish end of last month, according to security sources.
He said the Egyptian television that the army arrested six members of the «Liberation Army of Islam» Islamic extremist group which adopts, according to Egyptian media, society and the atonement is seeking to establish an Islamic emirate in northern Sinai.
Israel has given the green light for the deployment of a thousand Egyptian troops in Sinai «to restore order» to the region on the Israeli public radio reported yesterday. And took the decision of Israeli Prime Minister at the request of Cairo, according to the radio.
On the other hand announced that the newspaper «Haaretz» yesterday that the director of political-military affairs in the Defense Ministry, Amos Gilad visited Cairo on Sunday, where he spoke to officials on security operations in the Sinai.
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Egyptian prosecutor orders the prosecution of Jordanian and Israeli accused of spying
Security sources said the Egyptian media yesterday (Monday) The Attorney General ordered the trial of an Israeli and a Jordanian state security court. The newspaper «Egyptian today» The two men entered Egypt after the revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak on February 11 in order to eavesdrop on international phone calls and passed to Israeli intelligence (Mossad) to enable it to monitor a manner prejudicial to national security of Egypt.
The newspaper added that the suspect was first said that a Jordanian telecommunications engineer named Bashar Ibrahim Abu Zaid was arrested in March while his name and fled the Israeli Ofir Harare of the country and tried in absentia
Gulf Daily News - No. 3265 - Tuesday, August 16, 2011, corresponding to 16 Ramadan 1432 H