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A video of the Marriott hotel raid, dubbed with music far too dramatic to be used over footage of laptops and hard drives.Three of Elshamy's Al Jazeera colleagues, who work for the English-language service, were arrested after a raid on their makeshift studio in central Cairo's Marriott hotel on December 29. In a statement, the government prosecutor's office said that the team was producing "fabricated footage" to aid “the terrorist group [the Muslim Brotherhood] in achieving its goals and influencing the public opinion." (After the interim government came to power, it officially designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, despite the lack of any evidence to that effect.)Egypt's State Information Service says that the team was working without broadcast permits, providing a copy of an accreditation application letter from Al Jazeera that lists three staff members but none of those who have been detained. A source close to Al Jazeera's Egypt operation said that after a raid on their offices in August last year, it was clear that official permits would not be granted to the network, and the decision was made to work without approval from officials. In the video of the raid, however, one of the journalists is claiming in Arabic that an application had been made.
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