Egyptian security authorities said Thursday that they identified the features of the two suicide bombers who carried out the attack on the Multinational Forces headquarters in Sinai yesterday. The security sources told Egyptian Middle East news agency that the suicide bombers were likely to be two of the three runaways from Sharm El-Sheikh bombings case, which took place in July, 2005. According to the sources, the three Sharm El-Sheikh runaways are northern Sinai Bedouins Nasser Khamis Al-Mallahi, Eid Salama Al-Tarawi and Mohmmed Abdullah Abujareer.The Egyptian forensic department has conducted DNA tests for the remainings of suicide bombers and the families of the suspects in attempt to prove the attackers identities with concrete evidence. The Egyptian authorities have been waiting for more forensic evidences to draw probable connections between the Dahab and Al-Jorah bombings, said the sources, noting that forensic evidences would also include method of explosion as well as type and quantity of explosives.
The Egyptian security authorities have detained about 20