Hizbullah setting up an Egyptian cell

CAIRO, April 8 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities accused the Lebanese group Hezbollah on Wednesday of planning attacks inside Egypt, a development that could plunge Cairo’s relations with the Shi’ite group’s backer, Iran, to new lows.
The office of Egypt’s public prosecutor said it was investigating accusations that Hezbollah had recruited a 49-member cell with the aim of striking inside Egypt, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East.
Hezbollah angered Egypt earlier this year by accusing Cairo of complicity with Israel in its siege of the Gaza Strip.
“The public prosecutor received a note from state security about information confirmed by questioning about Hezbollah leaders sending some elements to the country to attract members to work with the organisation … with the aim of carrying out acts of aggression inside the country,” a statement by the public prosecutor said.
The statement said the group had been trying to monitor Egypt’s Suez Canal, its border with the Gaza Strip, and tourist installations in the Sinai Peninsula and sending information back to Hezbollah.
It also said the group had been establishing links with criminal elements to forge passports and setting up businesses to cover for spying activities.
It gave no details of any attacks being planned, but accused Hezbollah of trying to spread Shi’ite ideology in Egypt.

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( the arabist ) Culled from various sources, a list of what the “Hizbullah cell” was trying to achieve:

- Carry out terrorist attacks on the Shia holiday Ashura
- Rent housing near
the Suez Canal to monitor the passage of ships
- Surveillance of tourist
resorts in Sinai
- Procurement of explosives to manufacture bombs
- Renting housing in luxury areas to serve as safe houses
- Recruitment of
Egyptians to their cause, with the aim of sending them abroad for paramilitary
training
- Using businesses to fund and provide cover for their activities
- Spread Shiism in Egypt

(Reuters ) The Egyptian government is worried that public support for Hamas may boost the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has ideological and historical ties with the Palestinian group and is the strongest opposition group in Egypt.

I still remeber when Hasan Nasrallah (the Beloved hsibolah leader ) attacked the Egyptian regime and called Egyptians to rebel on their president ( Hosny Mobarak ) .

Egyptian/hisbollanian relation are in the opposite place of the spectum from the kisses and hugs of the Iranian / hisbollanin paradise ( at left )

So i already knew that the Egyptian regime wasn't favored by Hisbollah and a clash was coming up sooner or later .
But signs of denial hastly appeared after the news was declared , many Egypatians simply refuse to believe it , a good example is the post by Zeinobia entitled ( I Do Not Buy This with my all respect ) funny she never explained why .
but because she's a Hezbollah/Hamas/muslim brotherhood supporter ( like most of the Egyptians ) she's finding it hard to believe that Hezbollah could actually do any harm to Egypt , which is - of course - not true actually regarding their notorious history everything is possible as long as it complies with their own benefits , and right now Egyptian policy sharply conflicts with their agenda .

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Finding Neverland

The problem of illegal immigrants reaching Malta from Libya could be resolved come May 15 if a declaration made by Italian Home Affairs Minister Roberto Maroni comes to fruition.
Mr Maroni said leaving Libya would become extremely hard come May 15, when the agreement on joint patrols by Italian and Libyan personnel of the Libyan 2,000-kilometre coastline enters into force.
ifo from there

...Finding Neverland The land of plenty escaping a reality so dark ..ending up dead

In this photo taken Sunday March 29, 2009 and made available Tussday March 31, 2009 , retrieved bodies of drowned migrants are seen on board a vessel that took part in the rescue operation, after arriving at the port of Tripoli, Libya. Vessels carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Libya in separate incidents over the last two days and more than 300 people were believed to have drowned, an international migration group said Tuesday. (AP Photo) (AP / March 29, 2009)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — An international migration official says more than 200 people are believed dead as more bodies washed ashore in Libya after their overcrowded boat with illegal migrants capsized in stormy Mediterranean waters during it's attempt to reach Italian islands .

Laurence Hart, an official with the International Organization for Migration in Libya, says

authorities have stopped rescue efforts since chances of finding more survivors are slim.

Hart says several more bodies washed ashore Tuesday night near the ancient port city of Sebrata, some 50 miles, or 80 kilometers, west of the capital, Tripoli.
The migrants were packed on a wooden fishing boat that capsized Friday off Libya. Only a few survivors were rescued, and 21 bodies were pulled from the sea.
info from here