HUNKERED inside his fortified compound, North Sinai's governor, Abdel Wahhab al-Mabrouk, a military man, plans his counter-attack against the peninsula's rebellious Bedouin. Since the Egyptian uprising five months ago, they have thrown off the yoke of Egypt's police and are determined to keep it that way. "We'll kill them if they return," says a Bedouin sheikh. General Mabrouk has recently repainted one of four police stations in his provincial capital, el-Arish, which the Bedouin torched. Plans for restoring another are in hand. But on the streets outside the governor's building, uniformed police venture out only under an army escort.
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