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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: epsteinbd who wrote (93715)4/15/2003 5:46:52 PM
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Ali Baba was hiding behind Chemical Ali and now people complain that Mohammed Ali wasn't door keeping.

Personality deformation after decades of dictatorship. Those who had an independent character and acted or spoke out with only the slightest deviation from norms were killed.
Iraqis share graphic tales of regime's torture chambers
news.yahoo.com
Additionally the control role was totally in the hands of the regime, I guess that only few non-regime Iraqis felt a responsibility for public objects.

What about replacing the lost treasures with objects which all world citizens can have access to - virtual models? That's what was done in Germany with synagogues lost during Nazi time. An architecture faculty in Darmstadt created 3D models of many synagogues:
cad.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de
See, for instance, the Berlin synagogue:
cad.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de
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