CAIRO, May 11 (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces have uncovered and caught an al Qaeda-linked militant group that was on the verge of carrying out a suicide attack against a foreign embassy in the country, the interior minister said on Saturday.
Mohamed Ibrahim, speaking in a televised news conference, declined to say which embassy had been targeted. He named three suspected members of the cell now under arrest, adding that it was not part of al Qaeda, but linked to it.
(Reporting by Cairo newsroom; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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