[blam]

"Egypt can't pay for more flight lessons for its nationals and ammo for things like the Luxor massacre without those tourist dollars pouring in. "

My sister was at the Luxor site the day before the massacre. She will never go back to Egypt. I was there in '61 and have just about lost interest in anything Egyptian.

Albeit, I think the government cracked down pretty hard after the Luxor incident.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I was far too j'accuse toward the Egyptian single party state. And the terrorists at Luxor got chased and some of them captured (one almost beaten to death, if memory serves) by angry Egyptians.

Of course, those Egyptians were angry because they make their money off tourism, not because dozens of German tourists were gunned down.