Vendors at Egypt s pyramids who are desperate to make money in a deepening economic crisis are using

Vendors at Egypt s pyramids who are desperate to make money in a deepening economic crisis are using aggressive and even violent means to get tourists to give them some business, frequenters of the tourist spot say. [...]
Visitors going toward the ancient complex, roughly an hour s drive in traffic from central Cairo, are encountering Egyptians who work in the tourism sector and surround and pound on tourists taxis and cars in what the embassy says may be an effort to pressure visitors to ride in their horse-drawn carriages.
U.S. citizens, reads the Embassy warning, should elevate their situational awareness when traveling to the pyramids, avoid any late evening or night travel, utilize a recommended or trusted international airline flight trackers guide, and closely guard valuables. This is the same basic message presented by a World Economic Forum  report that ranked Egypt as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a tourist.
This is less dramatic news than reports of the latest massacre in Syria or riot in Turkey, but it s possibly more significant in the long term, for two reasons. First, it s the US Embassy that has issued this warning; second it s on the front page of USA Today, so plenty of people are going to hear about it.
Foreign economic aid won t be able to replace the lost tourism revenue, which, as the NYT reports ,  provides direct jobs for nearly three million people, critical income to more than 70 industries and 20 percent of the state's foreign currency—now desperately needed to prop up the plummeting Egyptian pound. And so the economic death spiral will continue.
It s been crazy to travel as a tourist to any Arab and some other Muslim countries for years. international airline flight trackers Business travel is necessary, but pleasure travel to these places is asking for trouble. AQIM has grown fat on ransoms of kidnapped tourists.
Muslims have no one to blame but themselves for the travesty they ve made of the Muslim world. Though I ve only traveled international airline flight trackers to 1 Muslim country (Malaysia), I see little evidence that Islam will, any time soon, develop the maturity which will enable it to engage with the rest of the world on a responsible level.
Owen Harries Tom Switzer: In his reluctance to brandish America s world leadership credentials at every turn, President Obama is tapping into an interesting if frustrating strain of American history and it just might help America learn the wisdom international airline flight trackers of great power prudence and humility.
James Van de Velde: American passivity has already helped ensure that the fall of Bashar al-Assad will be worse than it might have been. What will Washington do with Syria when it can no longer do nothing?