Al-Qaida 'plotting attacks on Sinai Resorts'

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.

Interior Ministry official Col Wagdi Ramzy said that the authorities had provided photocopies of forged passports of the five suspected militants to all security checkpoints at the entrances to south Sinai resorts.