Egypt Nabs Al-Qaida-linked Terror Cell Plotting Suez Attacks
July 9, 2009 by national
Filed under World Report
Egyptian authorities have arrested 25 al-Qaida-linked terrorists on suspicion of plotting attacks on oil pipelines and ships crossing the Suez Canal. On Thursday, a Palestinian-led cell planning terror attacks on ships crossing the Suez canal was nabbed in Egypt.
The Egyptian Interior Ministry said the new cell was led by a Palestinian and included 24 Egyptians, mostly engineers and technicians.
They planned to use mobile phones to detonate explosives against ships crossing the Canal, the statement said.
The group learned how to make car bombs through communicating with al-Qaeda terrorists on jihadist websites, according to an Interior Ministry statement.
