Egyptian authorities ordered the release on Saturday of leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam el-Erian, who had spent more than five months in custody without charge, and three other members of the banned Islamic group on bail. El-Erian and fellow Brotherhood leader Helmi el-Gazar were detained on May 6.

An al-Qaeda-linked group posted a web video on Sunday showing the graphic killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. The one-and-a-half-minute video, posted on an Islamic website, shows two blindfolded men beheaded and the shooting of a third man.

Egypt's largest Islamic group has criticised the possibility that President Hosni Mubarak may one day hand power to his son, saying on Wednesday it will "fight" any bid to enshrine hereditary rule into this country's laws. The fiery comments were made by Muslim Brotherhood supreme leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef.

This week's bombings in Sinai are linked to the terror attacks in the peninsula's resorts of Sharm el-Sheik last year and Taba in 2004, Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly said on Wednesday. "The information we have indicates that [the perpetrators] are Sinai Bedouin," el-Adly told state television.

Egyptian authorities ordered the release on Saturday of leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam el-Erian, who had spent more than five months in custody without charge, and three other members of the banned Islamic group on bail. El-Erian and fellow Brotherhood leader Helmi el-Gazar were detained on May 6.

An al-Qaeda-linked group posted a web video on Sunday showing the graphic killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. The one-and-a-half-minute video, posted on an Islamic website, shows two blindfolded men beheaded and the shooting of a third man.

Egypt's largest Islamic group has criticised the possibility that President Hosni Mubarak may one day hand power to his son, saying on Wednesday it will "fight" any bid to enshrine hereditary rule into this country's laws. The fiery comments were made by Muslim Brotherhood supreme leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef.

This week's bombings in Sinai are linked to the terror attacks in the peninsula's resorts of Sharm el-Sheik last year and Taba in 2004, Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly said on Wednesday. "The information we have indicates that [the perpetrators] are Sinai Bedouin," el-Adly told state television.