Missed another opportunity, the bastards

The DEBKAfile has this: Twenty-five Egyptians and one Palestinian suspects detained in Egypt have confessed to planning attacks on Suez Canal shipping and oil pipelines on behalf of al-Qaeda. DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources disclosed that a large group of fifteen to twenty al-Qaeda terrorists, trained in Pakistan and Algeria to hijack and blow up airliners, deployed secretly in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt for multiple attacks in the week of the G8 summit. Marine transport insurance sources remarked that, if al-Qaeda terrorists had succeeded in its purpose of sinking ships and blocking the canal (through which one-tenth of global seaborne traffic passes), oil prices, insurance fees, and cargo rates would have hit the roof. The leader of the al-Qaeda cell was an Egyptian, Mohammed Fahim Hussein. The Egyptian interior ministry reported on 10 July that the equipment seized in their homes showed they were able to make their own remote-controlled bombs.