CAIRO - Egyptian security forces arrested three suspected militants in the Sinai Peninsula five days before rocket attacks hit neighbouring Jordan and Israel last week, a pan-Arab daily reported Sunday. Asharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted unnamed sources who work in resorts in south Sinai as saying that the three men were arrested while in a vehicle that carried equipment that could be used to construct explosive devices. There was no evidence that the arrests were connected to the rockets fired, the paper cited the sources as saying. One person was killed and five injured by the rockets in the Jordanian port town of Aqaba last Monday. No injuries were reported in neighbouring Eilat on the Israeli side. Egyptian officials have blamed the Palestinian Hamas group for the rocket attacks, though the Islamist organization denies the charges and pointed the finger at Israel.
