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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt plans to build a $1 billion tunnel under the Suez Canal at Port Said and will begin seeking finance as soon as the designs are completed, Al-Akhbar newspaper on Monday quoted the investment minister as saying. The tunnel, to be built 19 km (12 miles) south of the Canal's northern entrance, will have 3 passageways, one for rail and two for cars, the newspaper quoted Mahmoud Mohieldin as telling a conference in Dahab in the eastern Sinai Peninsula. The conference was called to discuss investment in the cities along the canal and in the Sinai, which...

DAHAB, Egypt -- Monday's deadly terrorist attack here appears to be part of a growing threat to Egypt's regime, one inspired by the same global jihadist ideology at war with the West. The attack, which killed 24 people and injured as many as 100 more, was the third in two years in resort towns of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. At least three of the dead Monday were said to be foreigners, although no nationalities were identified...Yesterday marked the anniversary of Israel's 1982 withdrawal from the Sinai.

The explosions Monday night in Dahab, an Egyptian resort city, killing at least 30 and wounding many more, was the sixteenth attack on foreign tourists in Egypt since 1992. Egyptian authorities have linked at least some of these attacks to groups that want to establish an Islamic state in Egypt – principally Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman’s Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya. Sheikh Omar, of course, is now serving a life term in federal prison in Colorado for his role in masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. These attacks have often been quite bloody. Eighty-eight people were killed in...

I expected this, but not so soon. "Egyptian analyst: Can't rule out that Mossad was involved in attack," from Ynet News, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: Retired General Salah al-Din Salim, an Egyptian researcher at the Strategic Studies Institute in Cairo, said that it could not be ruled out that the Israeli Mossad was involved in the terror attack in Dahab. "The Mossad's ability to penetrate the Bedouins in Sinai is known," Salim said in an interview with al-Jazeera.

Three explosions have been heard in the Egyptian resort town of Dahab, according to the Reuters news agency.More follows...

Retired General Salah al-Din Salim, an Egyptian researcher at the Strategic Studies Institute in Cairo, said that it could not be ruled out that the Israeli Mossad was involved in the terror attack in Dahab. "The Mossad's ability to penetrate the Bedouins in Sinai is known," Salim said in an interview with al-Jazeera. (Roee Nahmias)

At least 22 people have been killed and scores more injured in three explosions in the Egyptian resort town of Dahab, reports say. The blasts occurred in quick succession in an area frequented by tourists at about 1915 local (1715 GMT). One resident told Reuters news agency that there were "body parts and debris in the street". Police said more than 20 ambulances and police cars rushed to the el-Masbat area of the Red Sea resort. An interior ministry spokesman confirmed the blasts. "There were explosions, but the picture is still not clear," he told Reuters news agency. One eyewitness...

Updated Mon. Dec. 16 2002 11:04 AM ET Report: Al Qaeda tried to get bail for B.C. man CTV News Staff An Egyptian man says Osama bin Laden sent him to Vancouver to post bail for a jailed member of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Abul-Dahab, who is currently in the custody of Egyptian police on terror-related charges, was one of two men sent to Canada to secure the release of Essam Hafez Marzouk. The revelations are contained in Abul-Dahab's confession to Egyptian police, a transcript of which was obtained last week by the SITE Institute terrorism research group in Washington,...