The Qatari-Brotherhood Relationship “Espionage for Qatar (2)”

Cairo – Ousted president Morsi committed all kinds of espionage for Qatar through leaking state secrets to Doha. As a consequence, Morsi stood trial before Egypt’s Supreme court on espionage charges. The case’s documents published by Al-Bawaba News newspaper had come to exactly prove that the defendants obtained state’s classified documents, gleaned top-secret information and reports on Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate, Military Intelligence, Armed Forces, Homeland Security and Administrative Control Authority, in cahoots with Doha. The defendants disclosed to Qatar such documents and reports, which were related to the Armed Forces and the state local and foreign policies.

The case’s documents also unveiled that the defendants spied for people working for a foreign country to leak these documents and reports with a view to doing harm to the State’s military, political and diplomatic position and its national interests. The defendants agreed with Alaa Sablan and Ibrahim Hela, Al-Jazeera’s employees, and an unidentified Qatari intelligence officer and provided them with copies of these documents and reports. Moreover, the defendants helped these three people know the methods to elicit original copies of these documents and reports to be delivered to Qatar. Accordingly, the crime was committed depending on the agreement and help of the defendants.

The documents of the case included the testimonies of witnesses, including Tarek Mohamed Sabri, Homeland Security officer. Sabri confirmed the leak and disclosure of the documents and reports, whose original copies were to be sold at $1.5 million.

The documents of the case also included the investigations of the State Security Prosecution, which mentioned the defendants’ confessions, including defendant MB Mohamed Kilany. Kilany admitted that he was informed by the defendants, who are MB members, about the leak and disclosure of the documents and reports under the orders of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood Global Organization.  Kilany pointed out that the documents and reports were leaked by the presidency, when the MB members felt they were about to fall on June 30. He added that the documents were divulged by MB leading members with the help of Al-Jazeera channel.

The court also heard the testimony of Mostafa Talaat el-Shafei, former head of the presidential staff office, who stated that he had been working at the presidency since 1977. El-Shafei explained that he worked as a head of the presidential staff office from 2000 until his retirement on June 21, 2013.

Asked about how the documents and reports were sent from the Egyptian presidency to Qatar, El-Shafei said the ousted president Morsi sacked a number the presidency staff and appointed other MB members from the first day Morsi came to power. El-Shafei added that Qatar obtained the documents and reports after they were sent by MB staff to Doha just 48 hours before the ouster of Morsi.

Egyptian Journalist and Member of Parliament, Dr. Abdel Rehim Ali is an expert on Islamist Movements and political Islam. This essay is adapted from his upcoming book “Qatar: The Destabilizer of the Middle East: The Full Story of Grand Conspiracy,” which will be published later this month.