CAIRO: An American court upheld the decision of the country's Energy Department to end the security clearance of Abdel-Moneim al-Ganayni, an Egyptian Physicist. The resulting decision has ended his career in the United States and stems from criticism he leveled on former President George W. Bush and American government pressure on Muslims in America. The U.S. Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit filed by the nuclear physicist on June 26, 2008, in a Pennsylvania District Court, against the decision by the Energy Department to dismiss and end the security clearance, which was the defacto end of his career in a laboratory of the U.S Government, which manufactures spare equipments and provide support services for nuclear submarines. America in Arabic News Agency noted that Judge Brooks Smith of the 3rd district U.S. Court of Appeals in introducing the rationale for the ruling on Monday, said that: “The court found that the ratification of the Former Secretary of Energy Department Samuel Bodman to end the security clearance of al-Ganayni has been properly issued under Section 5.2 of the Executive Order No. 12968.” Smith said in the text of the ruling: “We concluded that his security clearance has been terminated in accordance with Executive Order No. 12968, and under the legislation of the Energy Department.” He added that Ganayni's claim is “not convincing” and the court did not find in the language of legislation, of the Energy Department, anything that says it has exceeded Executive Order No. 12968. “We support the district court ruling, which provides the authority to end the security clearance,” the judge said. Ganayni, a nuclear physicist who immigrated to the United States in 1980 and settled in Petersburg, Pennsylvania, and became a U.S. citizen in 1998, worked at Bates Laboratory, a facility run by the U.S. Department of Energy dedicated to serving submarine nuclear propulsion to the military. Ganayni now lives in Egypt, after he lost his job in May 2008, after the Energy Department ended his security clearance. Ganayni pointed out that the U.S. Energy Department canceled his security clearance because of his harsh criticism of the policies of former U.S. President George W. Bush, especially concerning the war launched against Iraq in March 2003. He also rejected the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in recruiting Muslim informants in mosques, and described the FBI as “acting as a political organization.” BM
