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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Sully- who wrote (391614)	4/14/2003 12:43:58 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) of 769667

The looting looked organized Now who would be interested in organized looting of a world class museum? education.guardian.co.uk Dominque Collon, assistant keeper in the department of the ancient near east at the British Museum, said today that alarm bells had been set ringing by reports of a meeting between a coalition of antiquities collectors and arts lawyers, calling itself the American Council for Cultural Policy (ACCP), with US defence and state department officials before the start of the war. The group offered help in preserving Iraq's invaluable archaeological collections, but archaeologists fear there is a hidden agenda to ease the way for exports post-Saddam. That sounds like rich Bush buddies to me. The American Council for Cultural Policy and other organizations say they aren't taking sides as to whether the U.S. should invade Iraq. They had plenty of advance notice. cnn.com theartnewspaper.com If war is likely to endanger the cultural heritage, the aftermath could be much worse, say archaeologists. In the absence of a functioning government, looters move in. Objects taken out of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad (to make room for objects looted from Kuwait) and sent to museums in Kirkuk, Mosul, and Basra were looted after US troops routed the Iraqi army in 1991. On sites in Kurdistan, illegal excavation has been taking place quite openly. TP

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