Egyptian security forces thwarted a plan by an al-Qaida-linked cell to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy, capturing three militants, the interior minister said on Saturday.

Mohammed Ibrahim said the men, whom he accused of having links to militants in the Middle East and Pakistan, were found in possession of 10 kg of aluminum nitrate, which is used to make bombs.

He declined to say which embassy had been targeted.

Reuters

(China Daily 05/13/2013 page12)