No Egyptian crackdown on Sinai terrorists. Jihad keeps Israel in suspense

The Cairo media's highly colored accounts Monday, Aug. 30 of 1,500 Egyptian commando and tank supposedly raiding Jihad Islami and al Qaeda cells in Sinai are pure fiction, DEBKAfile's military sources confirm. Israeli forces along the Gazan and Egyptian borders down to Eilat stand at the highest level of preparedness for a Jihad Islami group which left the Gaza Strip for Sinai on Aug. 24 and is ready to strike. The Egyptian army, for its part, is sitting on is hands as the jihadists take up assault positions on its side of the Sinai border and Israel is waits passively for fear any preemptive action will further strain its relations with Caior.
But leaving the initiative to the terrorists is progressively sapping the IDF's deterrent strength.