SALIMA IKRAN, PROFESSOR OF EGYPTOLOGY, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO: But if several groups sort of raced, rushed the gates, of course there's not that much you can do, although increasingly there is a marked military presence the larger monuments, such as the pyramids and the sphinx.</s>CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: These terrorists who want to harm these ancient sites in Egypt, what do they want? What's their goal?</s>IKRAN: Well, I wish we really knew, because I think it's a combination. Part of it is to destabilize the government. And then others might be just thinking that let us just wreck these monuments that seem to have nothing to do with the world today as they see it. But, of course, for many Egyptians, for the majority, these are national treasures and symbols of their nation. So, for them, it's an attack on their national sort of sense of nationhood.</s>COSTELLO: Does Egypt need help in protecting these sites?</s>IKRAN: Well, I don't really know who or what could help them. Because right now the army, I think, is now gearing up to do a large scale protection. But, I mean, either you send armies from all over the world, which would be highly inappropriate, or I think that the battle against Daesh, or ISIS as it's called in the west, should be stepped up.</s>COSTELLO: Salima Ikran, thank you so much for your insight. I appreciate you being with me this morning. Still to come on the NEWSROOM, a multistate manhunt for two cold- blooded kills ramps up as a police chase -- as police chase multiple new leads. Up next, the latest on that search.
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