Senior Egyptian government officials have begun investigating the possibility that prisoners who escaped from a Yemeni jail may have been behind this week’s terror attacks in the Sinai Peninsula.
At the start of the week more than 20 people were killed in three bombings in the vacation resort Dahab. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Wednesday close to a military base in northern Sinai.
Suspicion has fallen on a group of convicts who escaped from prison more than two months ago.
The authorities in ‘Sana say many of the two dozen jail breakers were linked to Al-Qa’ida, with one or two at the top of the organization in the Arabian Peninsula.
Publicly, Cairo is still saying it believes local Bedouins were behind the attack, but it has admitted the bombers were probably from the same organization as those that carried out other terrorist attacks in Sinai over the last two years.