AP Online
10-07-1998
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ Police evacuated the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and searched the building on Wednesday after an anonymous caller claimed a bomb was planted on the premises, Egyptian police said.
Police searched inside and outside the building but found nothing, they said.
The U.S. Embassy did not comment on the report. An embassy official who spoke on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press the compound was operating normally hours after the bomb threat.
Police said an embassy official received the bomb threat at 5:30 a.m.
The embassy received another call at 7:30 a.m., and the caller demanded that U.S. and Israeli prisons release two Egyptian ...