Two ofthe best intelligence agencies inthe world with access to Egyptian officials, the U.S. State Department with a long and important presencein Egypt, to say nothingofthe Egyptian government itself were all unable to anticipate the crisis now unfolding in this extraordinarily important nation of 80 million people inthe heart ofthe Middle East.
The move follows the rebuttal by the British Army of allegations it had done nothing to reduce the security presencein Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998.
The paintings are being considered an important find because they document thepresenceof pre-Hispanic peoples in a region where "before it was said that nothing was there", Mr Ramirez said.