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Palestinians Plotting Egypt Attack?

Submitted by Homeland Security NTARC News on Monday, 11 September 2006No Comment

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Egypt is tracking a terror cell inside its country it says includes Palestinians from the Gaza Strip seeking to carry out a large scale attack in the Sinai desert, Egyptian security officials told WND.

The Egyptian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there is information a group of terrorists entered the country last month and is seeking to carry out a series of bombings in the Sinai’s Sharm el-Sheik region. Sharm el-Sheik is a Sinai resort spot popular with Israeli and foreign tourists.

The officials say they believe the terror cell, consisting of 12-18 members, includes militants from the Persian Gulf and Sudan and is backed up by Bedouin Egyptians in the Sinai. The cell, the officials say, also consists of Palestinian terrorists who entered the Sinai from the neighboring Gaza Strip.

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