CAIRO - Egypt's Public Prosecutor has ordered a Jordanian and an Israeli to stand trial at the State Security Court on charges of spying for Israel, according to security sources and media reports. The two men entered Egypt after the popular revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak on February 11, with the aim of intercepting international calls and re-routing them to enable Israel's intelligence body, Mossad, to monitor them, thereby harming Egyptian national security. Reports said that the first suspect, identified as Jordanian communications engineer Bashar Ibrahim Abu Zeid, was arrested last March, while the second, an Israeli identified as Ofir Herari, has fled the country and will be tried in absentia. Abu Zeid has also been charged with collecting data on employees working in the telecommunications sector, in order to recruit candidates to work for the Mossad. No date has yet been set for the trial. Egypt in June arrested an Israeli man suspected of spying and recruiting agents to destabilise the Arab world's most populous country and sow strife after Mubarak's ousting.
