Nuclear engineer charged as spy
From Times Wire Reports
Egyptian authorities have charged a nuclear engineer at the state’s Atomic Energy Agency with spying for Israel, along with two fugitive foreigners -- an Irishman and a Japanese -- a government statement said.
Mohammed Sayed Saber Ali, 35, took documents from his workplace at Inshas, the site of one of Egypt’s small research nuclear reactors, and handed them over to his foreign contacts, earning thousands of dollars, the statement said.
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