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Egypt thwarts major al-Qaeda attack?
Egypt was believed to have foiled an Al Qaida strike.The Jamestown Foundation said Egypt could have thwarted a major Al Qaida attack in early March. The Washington-based foundation said Al Qaida appeared to have targeted one of the largest gasoline terminals in Egypt. In a report, analyst Stephen Ulph cited a March 7 message posted on an Islamist forum that indicated an Al Qaida plot against Egypt's energy sector. Ulph said the plot, termed the Al Kinana Buqayq operation, appeared to have been inspired by Al Qaida's attempt to destroy the Abqiq oil refinery in Saudi Arabia. "It appeared to indicate that Egyptian security had foiled an attempt, perhaps inspired by the recent Abqaiq operation in Saudi Arabia, on petroleum supplies in Egypt," the report, which cited http://tajdeed.org.uk/forums, said. "According to the text, there was 'trustworthy news from special sources in the Land of Kinana [a poetic term for Egypt]." Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-03-26 |
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