Bombers held over Egypt tourist attackAn Egyptian cabinet minister said on Monday that those behind a bomb attack on a Cairo tourist site that killed a teenage French girl in February have been arrested, the official MENA MENA Middle East & North Africa MENA Middle East News Agency (Arabic Wikalat Al-Anbaa' Al-Sharq Al-'awsat) MENA Medium-Energy Neutral Atom MENA Mammalian Enabled MENA Mission Element Need Analysis news agency reported. "The security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the have detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: those elements who carried out the Al-Hussein terrorist attack," the news agency quoted Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mufid Shehab as saying. Shehab told MENA he had been informed of the arrests by Interior Minister Habib al-Adli. The February 22 nail-bomb attack in the famed 14th century Khan al-Khalili bazaar on the square outside Al-Hussein mosque mosque (mŏsk), building for worship used by members of the Islamic faith. Muhammad's house in Medina (A.D. 622), with its surrounding courtyard and hall with columns, became the prototype for the mosque where the faithful gathered for prayer. killed the 17-year-old girl and wounded another 24 people -- 17 French, three Saudis, three Egyptians and a German. It was the first deadly attack on tourists in Egypt since 2006. Shehab said without elaborating that those held belong to "a cell comprising Egyptians and people of various other nationalities." In the wake of the attack police said they had arrested three suspects, but no charges were brought against them. The improvised im·pro·vise v. im·pro·vised, im·pro·vis·ing, im·pro·vis·es v.tr. 1. To invent, compose, or perform with little or no preparation. 2. device had been placed underneath a marble bench on which the French girl was sitting when it exploded. 
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