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Mon, May 30, 2011 | Jerusalem Post | Edited by Crethi Plethi

Flag of al-Qaida in Iraq. (Source: wikipedia)

Egypt: Over 400 al-Qaida Terrorists now in Sinai

A senior Egyptian security official told the Al-Hayyat satellite television station on Monday that over 400 al-Qaida members made their way into the Sinai Peninsula seeking to carry out attacks and have already attacked.

Egyptian security forces were pursuing the al-Qaida terrorists, who are composed of Palestinians, Beduins and foreign Arab citizens, according to the report. The group was reportedly planning to carry out terror attacks in Egypt and the terrorists carried out “a number of attacks against [Egyptian] security forces in the Sinai city of El Arish,” the official told Al-Hayyat.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday also addressed Egypt’s security problems in Sinai. “Egypt has had difficulties exercising its sovereignty over Sinai,” he said at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

“We saw this in the two gas pipe explosions that occurred there,” Netanyahu said. “What’s happening in Sinai is that global terrorist organizations are meddling there and their presence is increasing because of the connection between Sinai and Gaza.”

Source: Jerusalem Post, Mon, May 30, 2011.