Egypt's interior minister said on Saturday police arrested three members of an Al-Qaeda-linked cell in an alleged transnational plot to bomb a Western embassy and other targets in the country. The suspects were arrested with explosives intended to be used to bomb a Western embassy after an investigation showed threads in Pakistan, Iran and Algeria, Mohamed Ibrahim said at a news conference. Police "have delivered a successful blow against a terror cell plotting suicide bomb attacks," said the interior minister.

Members of two radical Islamist cells dismantled at the weekend in northern Morocco wanted "to carry out jihadist attacks" in the kingdom and had contacts in Spain and Belgium, the interior ministry said on Thursday. "The members of the two cells, indoctrinated with takfirist (extremist) ideology, had forged links with like-minded people abroad, in occupied Melilla and in Belgium," the ministry said. Melilla is a Spanish enclave in northern Morocco. Eight people suspected members of the cells were arrested on Sunday in Nador, a security source told AFP.

Egypt's interior minister said on Saturday police arrested members of an Al-Qaeda linked cell that plotted to carry out a suicide bombing against a Western embassy and other targets in the country. Police "have delivered a successful blow against a terror cell plotting suicide bomb attacks," including a plot to attack a Western embassy which was in its final stages, Mohammed Ibrahim said at a press conference. The minister did not identify the embassy. se/jds

OTTAWA - A terror suspect recently arrested in the United States did not enter that country from Canada, the federal government said Friday. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney suggested the Tunisian-born man, who had been studying in Canada, could not actually have been here when he entered. "When we became aware of security concerns, he was back in Tunisia, and his study permit was not renewed," Kenney told a news conference.