CAIRO-Egyptian authorities Sunday freed 20 more Bedouin detainees in Sinai as part of efforts to ease tensions between police and the peninsula's locals, security officials have said. More Bedouin, detained for political reasons,will be released soon, they added. In the aftermath of tensions earlier this month between police and the Bedouin in the Egyptian peninsula, the Minister of Health Habib el-Adli met with the tribal chiefs and agreed to release detainees in other crimes then drugs and terror-related. Police detained thousands of young Bedouins in response to a series of bombings at tourist resorts in south Sinai in 2005 and 2006, and relations have since grown worse still. The authorities accuse Bedouin of involvement in the smuggling of weapons and goods from Sinai to both Israel and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, and are building barriers along the Gaza border to stop the smuggling into the Palestinian enclave. The Bedouin complain of neglect by the Egyptian government and say tough economic conditions have led some of their kin to resort to smuggling and other criminal activities.