A rather gloomy report, although some interesting local attitudes are revealed and the Egyptian state response is - well - robust:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...i-spreads.html

Numbers of attacks:
..the number of reported jihadi attacks in the Sinai has fallen rom 104 in July to 29 in October.
It is quality that matters:
In September, a car bomb set off by a recruit, a disillusioned former army officer, came close to killing the interior minister in Cairo.