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To: NickSE who wrote (94237)4/17/2003 3:12:16 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Experts: Looters Were Organized, Had Keys to Antiquity Vaults

Kenan Makiya says that his friends in Baghdad tell him that the looting was done by Ba'athists on their way out of town.

If so, it would explain something that puzzled me. I saw newstape of several curators bewailing the loss and saying something like, "I tried to chase the looters off with this stick but it was no good."

Now Iraq is a country that is just full of guys with AK-47s. Why didn't the curators get a few guys to help them guard the museum, or get any guns themselves? If the looters were pros, the answer is clear - they only would have died in vain. And if the looters were hired by the Ba'athists, they probably struck before the Marines were in position to do anything about it anyway.
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