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Egyptian security forces thwart Al-Qaeda embassy bombing -- interior ministry | |
2013-05-11 | |
Egypt's security forces have foiled an "imminent" attack on a foreign embassy plotted by an Al-Qaeda cell, according to Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim.
Ibrahim said the three suspects were captured with 10 kilograms of ammonium nitrate -- an ingredient in explosives -- and a computer containing bomb-making instructions. The minister told journalists at a Cairo press conference that the radical Islamists had been in contact with Al-Qaeda in Algeria, Pakistan and on the Syrian-Turkish border, where their contact is monitoring the inflow of jihadists into the war-torn country. Ibrahim claimed one of the suspects also traveled to combat training camps in Iran and Pakistan. A lawyer for the three men has told local Al-Ahram website that the charges against them were "fabricated." | |
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