planning to softer targets such as hotels and tourist areas. --Stephen V Cole

Canadian police arrested Ayman Bondok on explosives charges linked to the case of the recently arrested Egyptian suspect Tariq Adealy Khafagy. (They also briefly apprehended his girlfriend, Kim St Louis, but released her after she promised not to try to contact him.) Bondok is known to have called the Israeli consulate in Montreal to make bomb threats and demand the release of Lebanese prisoners held by the Israelis. (Based on the phone calls, Bondok is also being charged with