Detainees Linked to Al-Qaeda Targeted U.S., French Embassies in Egypt

(CNN) Paul Cruickshank, Reza Sayah, and Greg Botelho - The Egyptian prosecutor's office says three terrorists arrested over the weekend planned to detonate car bombs at the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, as well as at an Egyptian army facility in Sinai, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported Wednesday. They were getting ready to attack when Egyptian police arrested them.


2013-05-17 00:00:00

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