Details of the cables are the latest revelations on the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks toappearinthe Guardian, along with several other newspapers around the world.
Mr Murdoch has now been asked toappearin front of British MPs to answer questions on the issue, while police on Tuesday accused his newspapers of blocking their original investigations in 2006.
Within the first year of the war, news of atrocities by U.S. forces the torching of villages, the killing of prisoners began toappearin American newspapers.
Government-owned newspapersin Cairo say the cell, whose main operatives appearto have been rounded up in November, planned terrorist attacks on Egyptian resort hotels, targeting Israeli tourists with the aim of stoking general unrest and prompting a military coup.