‘Sinai attackers were educated, not local Beduin’
Members of the terror cell behind last month’s lethal cross-border ambush on IDF soldiers were educated middle class Egyptians, not local Beduin as previously assumed, Egyptian media reports said Wajieh’s friends told reporters that he did not belong to any political or religious movement.However, a report in al-Ahram claimed that Wajieh had surprised his family after the Id al-Fitr holiday with a change in his religious ideology.Some time before the attack, the report said, the two men left the village and their families did not hear from them.One villager, named as Fathi Mahmoud, said that before he left Zaqzouq he talked about his love of jihad, his anger over abuses against the Prophet Muhammad and the struggle of Muslims in Syria.The al-Aharam report said that neighbors of the two men in Mitkhakan were saddened and horrified after hearing the news that their fellow villagers had taken part in the terror attack.The report questioned how the men, who had lived quietly in the village, had somehow been converted to jihadist ideas.According to that report, one of the men’s relatives, who declined to give his name, said that the Egyptian authorities should search for the “missing link” – the person who recruited suicide bombers from the Minoufia district.