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(17 Apr 2007)
1. Various of undated STILL of Egyptian engineer, Mohammed Sayed Saber, arrested on suspicion of spying for Israel
2. Various of statement released by the State Security Prosecutor
3. Tilt up from street to building where Saber lived in Cairo
4. People outside apartment building
5. Balcony of apartment building
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Aum Nadin, Saber's neighbour:
"They are very good people and I am not convinced that he did this."
7. Front door to apartment where Saber lived
STORYLINE:
Egyptian authorities said on Tuesday they have arrested an Egyptian engineer from the country's nuclear energy agency for spying for Israel.
State security prosecutor Hisham Badawi announced that two foreigners, one Japanese and one Irish, were wanted in connection with the case but remained at large.
He identified the Egyptian engineer as Mohammed Sayed Saber and said he was arrested February 18 but that news of his detention were withheld pending the completion of the investigation.
He said Saber, 35, stole important documents from the Atomic Energy Agency and passed it on to agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence service in return for 17-thousand US dollars.
Saber first met the two foreigners in Hong Kong between 2004 and 2006, Badawi said.
Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Mark Regev, was sceptical about the claims.
One of Saber's neighbours in Cairo described his family as "good people" and said she found the accusations hard to believe.
Egypt has a small research atomic reactor.
It has recently announced plans to develop a nuclear energy program more than 20 years after it abandoned the idea of building a reactor in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
News of Saber's arrest followed the detention in January of Mohammed el-Attar, another Egyptian who also holds Canadian citizenship, on charges of spying for Israel.
Three Israelis, who were charged alongside el-Attar, remain at large.
In 2002, an Egyptian court found Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor.
Two years later, Egypt freed an Israeli Arab businessman convicted of spying in exchange for Israel's release of six Egyptian students.
Azzam Azzam served eight years in an Egyptian prison before his release.

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