Five alleged al-Qaida members who entered Egypt with forged passports and are currently hiding in a mountainous area in the Sinai Peninsula are plotting terrorist attacks, Egyptian authorities said today.

An Islamic militant suspected of helping plot a string of bomb attacks against Sinai tourist resorts turned himself in to police today.

Police in Egypt today killed the leader of an al-Qaida-inspired militant group who was wanted for last month’s Sinai bombings that killed 21 people.

This week’s bombings in Sinai are linked to the terror attacks in the peninsula’s resorts of Sharm el-Sheik last year and Taba in 2004, Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly said today.

Egyptian authorities, already struggling with elusive terror cells in the rugged Sinai Peninsula, moved quickly yesterday – arresting 30 men in the triple bombings that ripped apart a resort town on a tranquil holiday evening.

LAST night’s bomb attack in Dahab is the latest of a series of terrorist outrages in Egypt, many targeting popular tourist resorts.

DOZENS were feared killed after last night’s bomb attack hit an Egyptian resort at the height of the tourist season.

THREE blasts ripped through a popular Egyptian resort last night, killing and wounding dozens of people.

Three terrorist bombs tonight hit the Egyptian resort of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 150.

Three explosions tonight rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 18 people and wounding more 150 at just one hotel, according to police and rescuers.

Three explosions tonight rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 150 at just one hotel, according to the doctor who runs Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula rescue squad.

Security forces today killed a key suspect and two other Islamic militants accused in deadly bombings of tourist resorts in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.

A lull in five years of violence with the Palestinians and the pullout from the Gaza Strip has more Israelis feeling upbeat on the eve of the Jewish New Year, which begins at sunset today.

The massive hunt for suspected militants linked to several recent Sinai Peninsula resort bombings claimed the lives of two senior Egyptian police officers today when land mines, possibly planted by terrorists, exploded.

An internet statement released by the al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades militant group claimed responsibility for today’s rocket attacks in Jordan and Israel.

Police are searching for more than a dozen Egyptians and local tribesmen believed to have played a direct role in the weekend terror attacks in Sharm el Sheikh, senior security officials said today.

An Egyptian has been identified as a possible suicide bomber in the Sharm el Sheikh terror attacks in the first breakthrough in the investigation.

POLICE said yesterday they were searching for six Pakistani men in their widening investigation into Egypt’s deadliest terror attack that killed at least 88 people at the Red Sea resort, according to the latest figures.

EGYPTIAN police were searching last night for three suspected bombers who they believe escaped the scene of country's deadliest terror attacks ever.

Egyptian police were today searching for clues in the aftermath of the deadly bomb blasts in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheik that killed 88 people.

Egyptian police today struggled to identify dozens of the 88 people killed in three terror bomb blasts at a Red Sea resort.

A rapid series of car bombs and another blast ripped through a luxury hotel and a coffee shop in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheik today, killing at least 75, police said.

Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh early today, ripping through a hotel and a coffee shop packed with European and Egyptian tourists.

Two veiled women shot at a tour bus, and the fiance of one of the women blew himself up as he leaped off a bridge during a police chase today, wounding seven people in the second strike on tourists in less than a month.

Egyptian authorities say the nail bomber who attacked Cairo’s main tourist bazaar was working alone, amid fears that the blast, which killed three people including French and American tourists, could mark a revival of Islamic militant attacks that devastated the country’s economy in the 1990s.

A reported four people were killed and 19 injured when an explosion apparently set off by a man on a motorcycle hit a popular tourist bazaar in Cairo’s Old City today.

An explosion in a bazaar popular with tourists near Cairo’s al-Azhar mosque today killed one person and wounded five others.

EGYPT yesterday freed an Israeli Arab businessman convicted of spying in exchange for Israel’s release of six Egyptian students, a deal that signalled a warming of relations between the two countries.

A Palestinian angered by Israeli-Palestinian violence plotted and then died in the nearly simultaneous car bombings of a Sinai hotel and campsite that killed at least 34 people this month, the Egyptian government said today.

A Bedouin tribesman has confessed to selling explosives that might have been used in three car bombings targeting Israeli tourists, Egyptian security officials said today.

Al-Qaida terrorists were blamed today for the car bomb attacks in resorts on Egypt’s Sinai coast that are feared to have killed more than 50 people, most of them Israelis.

The death toll from the Sinai resort blasts continued to rise today after an attack on a luxury hotel blamed on al-Qaida.

Thousands of frightened Israeli tourists were rushing back home from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula today, after car bombs ripped through two Egyptian beach resorts crowded with Israeli visitors.

An explosion tore through a resort hotel in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula where Israelis were vacationing at the end of a Jewish holiday last night, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 160, officials said. Some reports put the toll at 35.

A strong explosion shook the Hilton hotel in Egypt’s Taba resort, only yards from the Israeli border, tonight, witnesses said.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak is not ruling out a last-minute meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat before Israeli elections, it was reported today.

An Israeli motorist has been shot and killed in an ambush near the border between east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Israel and the Palestinians have made good progress in drawing the borders of a future Palestinian state, say negotiators.

Israel has said it will resume peace talks with the Palestinians.

Israel has walked out of peace talks after two Israelis were killed in the West Bank, apparently by Palestinian gunmen.