Egypt says thwarts terror attack against Israeli tourists in Sinai - Haaretz

Last update - 20:35 26/04/2007

Egypt says thwarts terror attack against Israeli tourists in Sinai

By DPA

Egyptian security forces thwarted a Palestinian terrorist attack against Israeli tourists in Sinai on Thursday, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said.

One Palestinian suspect was arrested and another ran away when security forces confronted them 1.5 kilometres from Sinai's border with the Gaza
Strip, the ministry said.

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Abdel Shafie Jabr Maraheel, who is suspected of smuggling explosives into Sinai, was seriously wounded when he threw a homemade explosive at the police, the ministry added.

None of the policemen was injured, but the second suspect managed to escape.

Security sources said Maraheel was suspected of having entered Egypt illegally via a smuggling tunnel on the border with the Gaza Strip. They could give no information on what he may have been planning.

Bombers have hit Red Sea resort areas in the Sinai Peninsula three times since 2004, killing well over 100 people in attacks Egypt blames on a group of Islamists from the Sinai Bedouin community with militant views.

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1.	Palestine exports to Egypt	18:36	\|	* BEN JABO	26/04/07

2.	WOW!!	18:36	\|	Brant	26/04/07

3.	ISRAEL BASHERS	18:56	\|	TOBIA	26/04/07

4.	throwing grenades	19:30	\|	Richard S	26/04/07

5.	Radical Muslims on the move	19:45	\|	Star of David	26/04/07

6.	ITCHY TRIGGER FINGERS	19:53	\|	* BEN JABO	26/04/07

7.	# 1 BEN JABO	20:26	\|	Lynn	26/04/07

8.	Egypt`s selfish interests	20:32	\|	* BEN JABO	26/04/07

9.	Well, Good For the Egyptians!	20:48	\|	Jeff Northridge	26/04/07

10.	#7 Lynn	20:48	\|	* BEN JABO	26/04/07

11.	another muslim propaganda stunt,im sure egypt would have let the	21:11	\|	terrornator	26/04/07

12.	Egypt is a dictatorship!	22:14	\|	Pharoh	26/04/07

13.	every govt is dicatorship	22:59	\|	who cares	26/04/07

14.	#12 Pharoh - just wondering	23:16	\|	* BEN JABO	26/04/07

15.	Good for the Egyptians	23:45	\|	KUTW	26/04/07

16.	terrorists	01:03	\|	tom boran	27/04/07

17.	Throw a fatty bone and caress its ears gently: they deserve this!	03:03	\|	Tayfun_Turkey	27/04/07

18.	PA is Rogue Nation	03:13	\|	whomever	27/04/07