AP: Egypt finds explosives cache in Sinai peninsula

[ellisonz]

Egypt finds explosives cache in Sinai peninsula
Sun Jan 14, 5:36 PM ET

AL-ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces discovered a cache of explosives on Sunday in the Sinai peninsula, where bomb attacks have killed more than 100 people since 2004, security sources said.

The cache consisted of at least 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) of TNT hidden in two gas containers and large plastic bags and was found in the desert area near al-Arish, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, the sources said.

They said the explosives were discovered after a tip-off and no arrests had been made.

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Egypt has blamed the Sinai attacks, the last of which took place in April, on an Islamist militant group called al-Tawhid wal Jihad (One God and Jihad) and says the group is made up of Sinai bedouin with militant views.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070114/wl_nm/egypt_sinai_explosives_dc

That's all she wrote, the exculeded paragraph notes they found it after getting a tip.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Good. I wish we'd find all the caches of explosives in Iraq.

I wish the bunkers containing them had been guarded.