"If I'd have said the Museum was unsafe, I'd have been unpatriotic"

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Here is a revealing interview/harangue from Zahi Hawass (from Al-Masry Al-Youm), there is an interesting comment at two minutes in, that it would have been "unpatriotic" to have said the Museum was not safe, it would show the country up in the eyes of the international community. Not telling things as they are I would say is rather more likely to do that.

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