CAIRO (AP).- An Egyptian court convicted 11 officials from the Culture Ministry, including the deputy minister, of gross negligence and incompetence in the theft of a Vincent Van Gogh painting that embarrassed the government. The defendants received sentences of three years in prison and will have to post a bond of $1,800 to stay out of prison until the appeal. The “Poppy Flower,” valued at $50 million was stolen in broad daylight from Cairo’s Mahmoud Khalil Museum. Subsequent investigations revealed that no alarms and only seven of 43 security cameras were working. In addition to the poor security, thieves took advantage of the moment when museum guards were praying, to slice the canvas out of its frame with box cutters. In the course of the trial, Deputy Minister Mohsen Shalaan, and a number of museum