Families of Egyptian businessmen leave Cairo.
An official at Cairo airport says 19 private jets carrying families of wealthy Egyptian and Arab businessmen have flown out of the capital.
The official said the jets left Saturday carrying dozens of family members of Egypt’s business elite. He said most of the planes were headed for Dubai.
The passengers included the families of telecom mogul Naguib Sawiris, the executive chairman of Orascom Telecom, and Hussein Salem, a hotel tycoon and close confidant of President Hosni Mubarak.
No big loss, right? This is.
Big H/T to these folks that feel as sad as I do about this. There truly is no reason to destroy these beautiful pieces from the past.
Looters rip heads off two mummies.
Germany’s ZDF television has reported that a high-ranking member of the ruling National Democratic Party was involved in the attack on the museum, which holds some of the country’s most important historical artifacts, including the King Tutankhamun exhibit.
Daily Mail has published an AP photo of the Egyptian army standing guard in front of the Pyramids of Giza, with the following title, “Egyptian Looters Destroy 2,000-Year-Old Mummies in Bid to Steal King Tut’s Treasures“
Fire now threatens the Museum.
Army storms the Museum in order to protect it.
January 29, 2011 at 11:44 pm
If they think this will evoke some kind of sympathy for the uprising, they’re wrong.
January 30, 2011 at 8:47 am
This is similar to when the Shah left Iran. Many fled. They took their money and continued to do well. As for the museum, it’s shameful.
January 30, 2011 at 11:00 am
Remember when all the Saudis were allowed to leave the U.S. right after 9/11? And look what happened in Iraq after the collapse of the Hussein regime, although I am not sure how many wealthy people escaped…
“Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”
January 30, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Re: destruction of museum artifacts, I’m guessing it’s not all looting, but also to destroy of traces of Egypt’s non-Muslim religious past, Pharaohs being considered gods. In any event, those are not Egypt’s treasures, but humankind’s. It looks as if colonialism, in its efforts to save our legacy, was not all evil.