"Terrorists targeted Suez ships, pipelines" by Alaa Shahine and Alaric Nightingale, Bloomberg News | July 10, 2009
CAIRO - Ships in the Suez Canal and oil pipelines were the targets of a terrorist plot involving Al Qaeda, Egyptian authorities said after arresting 26 suspects.
The 25 Egyptians and one Palestinian were able to manufacture remote-controlled bombing devices, the Interior Ministry in Cairo said yesterday in a statement.
So they were working for Israel then, huh?
The Egyptian accused of leading the cell, Mohamed Fahim Hussein, confessed to communicating with groups linked to Al Qaeda, the ministry said.
Was that BEFORE or AFTER the TORTURE?!!!!
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In 2007, one-tenth of global seaborne trade passed through the Suez Canal. “It would be a worldwide mess if the canal was closed,’’ Pablo Mastragostino, a broker at Nolarma Tankers SRL in the Italian city of Genoa, said by e-mail. “Freight would go skyrocketing and whole trade routes would have to be reprogrammed.’’
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Egypt hasn’t witnessed a major militant attack since the bombings in the Sinai resorts of Taba, Sharm el-Sheikh, and Dahab between 2004 and 2006. Those attacks killed more than 150 Egyptians and foreign tourists. The government said at the time that Al Qaeda had no role in the bombings....
You SEE what is going on, no?
The Interior Ministry said it seized a pistol, electronic circuits, and devices available in ordinary stores from the suspects. Tests proved that the pistol was used in an attack on a jewelry store in Cairo last year, in which the owner and four workers were killed. The suspects confessed to trying to rob a pharmacy and forge money without success, the ministry said.
Why did the term FRAME UP just leap into my head?
Egypt fought a long battle with Islamist militants seeking to topple the government in the 1990s. Egyptian political analysts say they haven’t since seen evidence of an organized revival of militancy in the most populous Arab country.
So when is the next U.S. AID check due?
