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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (10746)4/16/2003 7:01:46 PM
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who is to blame for not protecting the baghdad museum from iraqi looters?

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THE SPECTER OF WAR

Protecting Iraq's museum collections and archaeological sites in the event of an invasion.

BY JOANNE FARCHAKH

he grand reliefs from the Assyrian palaces of Nimrud and Khorsabad--the pride of the Baghdad Museum--are housed in an exhibition hall across the street from the Ministry of Communication and a mere 300 feet from a television and radio station. These buildings, as experience has shown, are the first targets for air strikes, and Iraqi cultural officials fear that the reliefs, weighing several tons each, will be knocked off their pedestals in the event of a strike. "We do not have the means to prevent such falls," admits museum director Nawala Mettwali, "but we can deaden the shock by covering the floor of the museum with sand and by encasing the masterpieces in sandbags." Across the Iraqi capital, authorities have painted "UNESCO" on museum rooftops to remind pilots that they are cultural buildings--not prime military targets--and the staff of the Baghdad Museum has been trained to empty its thirty-two rooms in less than twenty-four hours and move the collections to secret locations. ......
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