The Jerusalem Post reports:
“Two Swedish reporters were held for hours on Wednesday by Egyptian soldiers accusing them of being Mossad spies, the reporters’ employer, daily newspaper Aftonbladet, reported. The soldiers reportedly attacked the reporters, spitting in their faces and threatening to kill them. Four Israeli journalists were arrested by Egyptian military police in Cairo on Wednesday. Three of those arrested work for Channel 2 and the fourth is from Nazareth.”
The article is headlined: “Pro-Mubarak demonstrators are targeting the press,” and conflates the roughing up of CNN’s Anderson Cooper with the arrest of the Israeli “journalists” — but it is the up-until-now-neutral military, not Mubarak’s thugs, who have detained the accused Mossad agents. For more on the history of Mossad operations in Egypt, go here (and here). Suffice to say that this isn’t the first time Israel’s intelligence agency has intervened with provocateurs to justify a crackdown.
So let’s step back and look at the progression of events: a peaceful anti-Mubarak demonstration is attacked by pro-Mubarak thugs, and suddenly accused Mossad agents are arrested. And the Israelis are now coming out in public, brazenly calling on their Western allies to tamp down their criticism of Mubarak.
Update: According to the Committee to Protect Journalists:
“Police arrested four Israeli journalists for allegedly violating the curfew in Cairo and for entering the country on tourist visas, according to news reports. Three of the journalists reportedly work for Israel’s Channel 2, while the fourth reports for an unnamed Israel-based Arabic news website, according to news reports. But Channel 2 told CPJ that the station does not employ the three journalists. The names and correct affiliation of the arrested reporters remain unclear.”
“[Thanks for the tip to commenter “Watson.”]
Update 2: Jerusalem Post reports the four Israeli reporters have been released, and now an Israeli “engineer” has been arrested in Egypt. [Note: Broken link fixed.]
Update 3: NPR reports:
“Israel Radio said one of the journalists worked for an Arabic-language portal based in the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth. Israel’s Channel 2 TV denied reports that three of its reporters were among those detained.
“Israel’s Foreign Ministry released a statement calling on Israeli reporters in Egypt to “remain alert, act responsibly and follow the rules.””
Yeah, and the rules are : don’t get caught.
"Mossad in Egypt?" Short answer would be, oh hell yes. As are probably US SpecOps, CIA, FBI, BlackwaterXE, AND that infamous and nefarious al-Zarqawi guy. John Bolton should be tossing that little nugget out there just about any minute now…
WE ALL KNOW THAT MOSSAD HAVE CARRIED OUT COUNTLESS RUTHLESS, BRUTAL AND DIRTY FALSE-FLAG OPERATIONS AND COVERT OPERATIONS IN EGYPT, LEBANON, PALESTINE, IRAN, SYRIA, JORDAN, EUROPE ETC SO THE PRESENCE OF MOSSAD AGENTS IN EGYPT IS POSSIBLE DURING THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION because Mossad agents are ordered to murder the leaders of the Egyptian revolution ! JUST ASK ANY ZIONISTS ABOUT THE Israeli LAVON AFFAIR or Operation Susannah ETC !
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It appears Israel's Channel 2 has denied those three 'reporters' work for them. http://cpj.org/2011/02/journalists-under-physical…
Poor Anderson Cooper
*shed's crocodile tear*
He ain't got nuttin on Jacky Rowland and the tear gas attack, tho. That woman is a real trooper.
People: what is happening in Egypt is yet another orchestrated police and secret service Mubarak thugs whom are attacking people.., if you want to do something about it call the White House and demand from President Obama to act and cut off the aid to Egypt until Mubarak is out.., this has been the demand by the people of Egypt and thus far is been a peaceful demand. For democracy to flourish democracy needs to help democrats’ whom demands are based on the principals in democracy, helping Mubarak is helping his thugs.., so where is that democracy that US is talking about. plz call Obama’s hotline 202-456-1111.
Maybe they were retired Mossad agents, trying to relive their glory days of danger and fomenting unrest. I guess they've had nothing really exciting going on since helping to plan the attack on the USS Liberty, or handling J. Pollard. That 9/11 thing worked a lot better than they thought it would though, didn't it?
Really, though- did Israel really think Mossad agents were just going to slip in and start something and get out without being detected? Please- Egyptians have better things to do than listen to you now, Israel.
REmember the Lavon Affair.Maybe Israel use this as pretext to attack Egypt.
OMG your "Update 2" link isn't working! The Mossad is messing with Justin's articles!
Call me crazy, but is anyone else here starting to think that Justin is a Mossad agent?
People: what is happening in Egypt is yet another orchestrated police and secret service Mubarak thugs whom are attacking people.., if you want to do something about it call the White House and demand from President Obama to act and cut off the aid to Egypt until Mubarak is out.., this has been the demand by the people of Egypt and thus far is been a peaceful demand. For democracy to flourish democracy needs to help democrats’ whom demands are based on the principals in democracy, helping Mubarak is helping his thugs.., so where is that democracy that US is talking about. plz call Obama's hotline 202-456-1111.
Guests, don't you get it? Mubarak has nothing to do with this. What is happening in Egypt was orchestrated by four Israelis in Tahrir Square.
If you call Obama's hotline, tell them that Mossad is behind this!
Israeli PM says Iran wants 'another Gaza' in Egypt
What he really means that Israel would turn Egypet into Gaza if the Egyptina Pepople had their way.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110202/ap_on_re_mi_e…
No, that's not what he means…He means it doesn't matter to Israel how it's done, just as long as Egypt turns into Gaza..Israel can't afford a democratic Egypt on their borders…but it was nice reading that the Egyptians have their number..and that things will change once Mubarak is out of the way….
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He wants to turn Egypet into a large prison like Gaza if they were to control their own destiny.
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