Americans Abducted In Sinai

CAIRO [MENL] -- For the first time, the Bedouin insurgency in Egypt has
targeted Americans.
Security sources said Bedouin gunmen believed linked to Al Qaida have
abducted two Americans in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The sources said the
abduction took place on early May 31 along the southern coastal highway from
Dahab to Nuweiba. Within a day, the two were said to have been freed.