Suspected terrorists arrested for plotting Egypt attacks

Egyptian authorities have announced the arrest of 26 men, most of them engineers and technicians suspected of links with the terrorist al-Qaeda organization, on charges of plotting attacks on oil pipelines and ships transiting the Suez Canal.

The Egyptian Interior Ministry said the suspects, 25 Egyptians and a Palestinian, who had prepared remote-controlled detonators and explosives, were in contact with the Islamic Army of Palestine and were awaiting instructions from an al-Qaeda operative based abroad.

Egyptian authorities, who confiscated explosives, electronics, and diving suits, alleged that the suspects had prepared the remote-controlled detonators and explosives out of armaments left in the Sinai Desert from Egypt’s wars with Israel.

The US Energy Information Administration considers the Suez Canal and the nearby Suez-Mediterranean pipeline as one of the world