Becoming a cynic

With the old regime it was well accepted that you had to interpret whatever you read in the papers - nothing was ever the whole story and you were always being told what people wanted you to be told....(this is also a healthy attitude with western press also)....

So I was interested to read this story that would clearly damage the fragile or near-non existant tourist industry. I found some more details on a random blog....Giza is where the main pyramids are.

A bomb has exploded at Giza about 150 meters from the pyramids badly injuring three people.

Initial reports stated that the three injured were men who sold tourist trinkets but now it is being reported that they were children, one boy having lost part of his arm. The three children had found the object out in the desert and brought it back to the pyramids to try to open it, thinking it might contain ancient Egyptian artefacts. The device exploded when they used iron bars to hit the object in the attempt to get inside. From APF

In the mainline Masry al Youm it states

It was not clear how a leftover piece of ordnance ended up in the desert near the pyramids, where no major battle has been fought since 1798, when Napoleon’s army routed Egypt’s Mamluk rulers in a pitched battle. [...]

[...] Egypt was the site of titanic tank battles during World War II, but these were confined to the deserts around the northern coast and the later wars with neighboring Israel were focused around the Suez Canal and the Sinai Peninsula, far to the east.

Lets hope the rather dubious and patchy explanation is true, many people here depend on tourism which currently is in a poor state, driving many into poverty. The country needs the tourists to return....