The franchises are new and pretty undeveloped so far. As yet, al-Qa’ida central has not granted formal recognition to its aspiring Sinai franchise. But really, it’s only a matter of time.

This week, an Israeli cabinet minister told me that looted Libyan weapons have been smuggled into the Gaza Strip.

In both Libya and Egypt, the prisons were emptied. Many innocent people were wrongly incarcerated in those prisons. But there were also many, many authentically extremist jihadists who have now gone back to the life of murder, suicide and caliphate building, which is their true love.

This could make the Sinai, in the words of the brilliant if perhaps over-stated American analyst Jeffrey Goldberg, the new Somalia.