'Sinai bomb-plotter' surrenders to police

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

Twenty-six-year-old Mohammed el-Shenoub, 26, also known as Abu Jihad, surrendered to police in the Sinai Peninsula town of el-Arish near Israeli borders, said the chief detective of North Sinai police Brig. Gen. Adel Fawzi.