The World : 4 Libyan Agents Sentenced

An Egyptian court sentenced four Libyan intelligence agents to 25 years in prison at hard labor for conspiring to assassinate a group of prominent Libyan political exiles, including former Prime Minister Abdel-Hamid Bakoush. Three other agents, tried in absentia, were sentenced to terms of 10 to 15 years. The Libyans were arrested last November as they prepared to storm a villa near Alexandria where the exiles were meeting. They were arrested after a double agent who had guided them across the Egyptian frontier alerted police to the assassination mission. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told reporters, “Egyptian law must be applied to those who do wrong on Egyptian soil.”