Brotherhood accused of building alternative army in Sinai

DEBKAfile: The Egyptian prosecution is preparing to indict deposed Muslim Brotherhood leaders with charges of establishing an Iranian Revolutionary Guards-type militia in the Sinai Peninsula, as an alternative to the Egyptian army. Khariat al-Shatter heads the list of accused Brotherhood officials. The Egyptian military charges the Brotherhood with planting cells among the armed Salafist and al Qaeda networks of Sinai and plotting to blow up the great 3.5km long bridge over the Suez Canal and block the waterway to shipping,