Cairo officials have identified seven terrorists suspected of involvement in an August 5 attack which killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, according to Israel Radio.
The report quoted Egyptian Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal El-Din as telling government paper Al-Akhbar that of the seven suspects, one was an Egyptian citizen who belonged to a sleeper cell of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.
The Egyptian interior minister reportedly did not reveal the nationality of the other six suspects.
On Saturday, Egypt said it had arrested a high-level Islamist militant convicted of killing troops in the Sinai Peninsula, vowing to keep up military operations to “cleanse” the volatile desert region.
Officials said the military would soon issue a detailed report on its operations in the Sinai, now in their fourth week, which it started after a brazen attack by extremists on a police outpost near the borders with Israel and Gaza.
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The announcements seemed intended to offset reports that Egypt’s Islamist president was using former jihadists to mediate with radical Islamists in Sinai, trying to ensure a halt in militant attacks in return for stopping the military offensive in the lawless peninsula.
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