08:12 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIsrael’s foreign minister says a suspected Mossad spy detained in Egypt is actually a dual US-Israeli student.<\/p>\n
Ilan Grapel, 27, is being questioned in Cairo after his arrest on Sunday. He is accused of trying to sabotage Egypt’s revolution by inciting sedition.<\/p>\n
But Avigdor Lieberman told Israel’s Army Radio: “He has no connection to any intelligence apparatus, not in Israel, not in the US and not on Mars.”<\/p>\n
“This is a mistake or strange behaviour by the Egyptians,” the minister said.<\/p>\n
“They have received all the clarifications and I hope the whole story will end quickly,” he added.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Egypt’s state prosecutor issued a statement saying that Ilan Grapel had posed as a foreign correspondent covering anti-government protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The statement said he tried to foment Muslim-Christian tension and turn the people against the army in the days following the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n
Mr Grapel immigrated to Israel in 2005 from New York and served in its military in the 2006 Lebanon war, reports in the Israeli and Egyptian media said.<\/p>\n
His mother said he was enrolled as a law student in the US but currently working for an NGO in Cairo, Saint Andrew’s Refugee Services.<\/p>\n
The US embassy in Cairo said a consular officer visited Mr Grapel on Monday and found him in good health.<\/p>\n
The arrest has set off fears in Israel that relations with Egypt will sour now that Mr Mubarak has been deposed.<\/p>\n
The former president had generally co-operated with Israel on security matters and upheld the 1979 peace treaty between the two neighbours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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