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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: zonder who wrote (70268)5/8/2003 6:04:35 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz   of 70976
 
>> Will the disinformation never end...

No. But maybe in that case it was just an idiot reporter. Because as you say, no one who sees pictures of hundreds of broken cases can believe that only 40 pieces are missing.

The problem is that there are always ready gullibles to believe the idiot reporters.
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I think this version is more likely.

from the CNN article:

Officials from a U.S. government delegation, which just returned to Washington from an Interpol conference on the missing antiquities in Lyon, France, this week, said the number of missing artifacts was never mentioned in their meetings.
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