SINAI- Police released Bedouine locals, including women, detained in a recent hunt for wanted fugitives, said local tribal sources. They added that normalcy returned to El Ouja crossing with Israel after days of tensions triggered by the security crackdown. Senior security officials, meanwhile, said that a meeting would be held by police and the local tribe chiefs in order to look into the Bedouin's problems. Security has been beefed up around a gas pipeline running from the Egyptian border town of el-Arish to Israel after threats to blow it up. Police relations with Sinai Bedouin are usually tense, with Bedouin complaining of routine harassment and discrimination.
