Egypt Opens Criminal Inquiry Over New York Times Article

[highplainsdem]

Source: NYT

Egypt’s prosecutor general has ordered a criminal investigation over a New York Times article that described a covert effort by Egyptian intelligence to sway public opinion in favor of accepting President Trump’s decision recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The article “undermines Egypt’s security and public peace, and harms the country’s public interest,” the prosecutor, Nabil Sadek, said in a statement.

The investigation comes after a torrent of furious commentary in Egypt’s pro-government media and in Parliament, where lawmakers denounced the article, published online on Saturday, as part of an international conspiracy to embarrass Egypt.

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Mostafa el-Gendy, a lawmaker, said of The Times: “They are truly at war with Egypt, and are seeking to bring down the nation, not just the state or the president.”

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/world/middleeast/egypt-times-investigation-jerusalem.html

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I think there's a very good chance that the Trump admin is encouraging this criminal investigation as an attack on the Times.

And btw, the lawmaker who says the Times is "at war with Egypt" is the owner of the townhouse that Bannon's been living in and Breitbart operates out of (or operated out of -- I don't know whether Bannon moved out or the Breitbart staff moved out (editing to add that I just checked Twitter and it's apparently likely that both Bannon and Breitbart are still in the townhouse)):

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2016/08/29/mps-property-washington-allegedly-used-trump-presidential-campaign/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Dictatorships are particularly wounded by truth and understand the need to immediately quash it.