AP: Egypt Terror Plot...

Egypt- Terror Plot

By PAKINAM AMER,
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ A group of 16 Azhar and college students were arrested in Minya, Suhag and Asiut. The students were accused of manufacturing bombs and explosives to be used in a suicide bombing, police said.
Meanwhile, Wednesday, police arrested three people in connection to a suicide bombing last month in al-Azhar area in old Cairo.
The trainer of the arrested Islamist students is believed to be Ali Othman Tammam, an Asiut resident and an Azhar school secondarystudent.
Tammam, who escaped from his house earlier, was arrested alongwith his father, who confirmed the allegations of his son's involvement in the plotting of a terrorist attack in southern Egypt, police said.
Their leader Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Salama, who is still on the run, was previously accused of designing the 1995 attacks against police stations in Kafu.
The Azhar blast, where a bomb packed with nails exploded in a bazaar area, killed two french tourists and an American one, and injured 18 people, including Egyptians, Americans and French.