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Pyramids in peril

GIZA, EGYPT -– They have survived sandstorms and desert stillness, the fury of kings and the ravages of time, but the legendary Pyramids of Giza are endangered now – and the agent of their peril is a gloomy Egyptian stable-owner by the name of Hesham el-Ghabri.

Or so you might think.

"They forbid us to ride around the pyramids," grouses the owner of the TWA Stable ("Camel and Horse Riding"), one of countless such tourist-dependent operations clustered in the shadows of the brooding Sphinx and the three celebrated Pyramids of Giza. "They accuse of us being terrorists. They say we are going to bomb the pyramids."

"They" are high officials at Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities –- the government body responsible for administering the Pyramids of Giza along with the rest of this country's innumerable ancient monuments –- and they have not actually accused el-Ghabri and his ilk of being terrorists, although perhaps they might as well have.
Read entire article at Toronto Star