Egyptian court orders huge sentences to Al-Jazeera employees and Morsi

Cairo -- If the United States enacted punishment for treason like they do in Egypt, a couple of liberal heads would be rolling down the river--use your imagination. Six Egyptians, two of whom are Al Jazeera employees, were sentenced to death for allegedly passing classified documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during Mohammed Morsi's Islamist presidency.

Morsi, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist, is the top defendant in the case and he was given 40 years along with his secretary, Amin el-Sirafy. 

Two of Morsi's aides were sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Sirafy's daughter, the delightful Karima, was sentenced to 15 years in the slammer.

Morsi was booted out of power by a military coup in July 2013. He has been sentenced to death in another case. That sentence and two more (life and 20 years in prison) are under appeal.

The Al-Jazeera employees, Alaa Omar Mohammed and Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal, were sentenced in absentia as was Asmaa al-Khateib, who worked for Rasd, a media network with probable links to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that enjoys a warm relationship with President Barack Hussein Obama of the United States.

The Brotherhood was banned and declared a terrorist organization after Morsi was ousted. They are not banned in the United States and have made frequent White House visits to meet with the Obama administration.

Three other defendants were also sentenced to death: Ahmed Afify, a documentary producers, an EgyptAir cabin crew member Mohammed Keilany, and Ahmed Ismail, an academic scholar who wasn't smart enough to not get caught.

Cairo maintains that Al-Jazeera's news coverage of Egypt and in the Middle East is biased in favor of jihadist groups.

 The American president also has an apparent bias toward Islamic terrorists as he prohibits his administration and law enforcement agencies to use words that actually define and describe who America's enemies are. 

They, on the other hand, make it very clear why they're killing infidels.


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Human remains of Flight 804 may tell us what brought it down

EgyptAir Flight 804 was likely brought down by an act of Islamic jihad. I could have used the term "Islamic terrorism" but jihad describes the terrorism as a religious act.

Human remains were found to have "very tiny" burn marks, suggesting an explosion occurred rather than a slow burn of the jets' interior. In fact, a U.S. official briefed on current intelligence told Fox News that "All signs continue to point to terrorism."

The official told the AP that he examined the human remains of some of the 66 passengers and crew--there were 80 pieces in all--and these body pieces are small and that "there isn't even a whole body part, like an arm or a head."

But one part of an arm had burns that may indicate it belonged to a person who was close to the explosion when it went off. The same official said the satellite may have missed the explosion when it occurred. "Contrary to popular belief, we cannot see every part of the earth all the time," he said.

So far, no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the EgyptAir downing.

A Cairo newspaper al-Watan, quoted an anonymous forensics expert saying the jet blew up in midair, but it is not known whether the blast was caused by an explosive device or something else. The official also grimly added that the remains so far retrieved are "no larger than the size of a hand."

Egypt's forensic head denied the statements.

"Everything published about this matter is completely false, and mere assumptions that did not come from the Forensics Authority, Hesham Abdelhamid said, as quoted by MENA. They added that the body parts could have been broken up upon impact into the sea.

Family members of the victims arrived at Cairo's morgue's forensics department to provide DNA samples in order to identify the remains of their kin.

There remains an international effort to retrieve the jet's cockpit voice and data recorder possibly located at depths as much as 10,000 feet.

For many in Egypt, it's all Israel's fault, even if ISIS claims responsibility. That's the nonsense some anti-Zionists are currently spouting in the land where Pharaoh took Jewish slaves.




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DEVELOPING: EgyptAir flight 804 crashed: likely due to terrorism

EgyptAir flight 804 bound for Cairo went down in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning with 66 souls aboard. It left from Paris' Charles de Gaulle International airport and several hours later sharply zig-zagged before plunging into the sea, aviation officials said. The aircraft was an AirBus 320.

Terrorism seems to be the most likely cause of the downing, but nothing can be ruled out at this time.

Government officials from Egypt, France and Greece had separate press conferences and White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, held a presser just after 12:30 p.m.

Ships and smaller craft are searching the waters off the Greek Island of Karpathos, where a witness reported seeing a fireball in the sky, but the depth of the water is as much as 5,000 feet and the search is likely going to be difficult.

At this posting, there is a British missile cruiser HMS Defender and a Russian ship closing in on the area where there is a suspected debris field. An Egyptian plane spotted two orange items believed to be from the missing plane.

The head of Russia's top domestic security agency, Alexander Bortnikov, said that "in all likelihood it was a terrorist attack" and called for a joint effort to track down those responsible for that "monstrous attack."

More to follow as more is learned.


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