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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (391588)4/14/2003 12:17:36 AM
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“The great surprise to all of us ... was what happened to the antiquities of Iraq after 1991,” he said.

Figuring that the allies would bomb Baghdad,<font size=4> Saddam moved many of the nation’s great treasures out of the National Museum of Iraq<font size=3> to smaller sites in outlying towns. In the chaos that followed the American invasion and withdrawal, Iraqis looted those museums and began selling ancient artifacts on the black market.

“Go to eBay, and you can find very valuable things,” Veenker said – stolen from Iraqi museums a decade ago.


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