Posted on 07/09/2009 5:45:25 AM PDT by SJackson
Egyptian authorities said they arrested 25 radical Islamic terrorists who were planning a terror attack at the Suez Canal. The chief of the crew is a member of Al-Qaida, security officials said, while the rest were Egyptian citizens. Most were technicians and engineers.
Authorities say the group was planning to remotely set off explosives on ships plying the canal, using cell phones. They were also planning to damage or destroy oil pipelines running beneath the canal. The group had undergone intensive training in terrorist tactics and fighting, including learning how to build car bombs.
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Per other coverage, trained in Gaza, funded by overseas "charities". Some articles say they're palestinian rather than Egyptian, should just call them Arabs.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier crosses the Suez Canal near Ismailia city, 120 kilometers east of Cairo, Tuesday. On Thursday, a Palestinian-led cell planning terror attacks on ships crossing the Suez canal was nabbed in Egypt.
These nuts aren’t all that particular about who or what they harm. Jews and Americans are preferred, of course, but other Muslims will do if available.
Glad they stopped that overseas contingency plot
How can that be. O went to Cairo and made the world a more peaceful loving place.
ha ha their wahabi shittyism doesn’t make them immune I see
Israeli papers highlighted the Palestinian involvement, Egyptian papers downplayed it.
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