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To: briskit who wrote (101243)	6/12/2003 8:30:54 AM
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Museum Pieces and Weapons of Mass Destruction The triple pasting of the Opinion Journal article text doesn't make it any better. Mr. Kimball should listen to what US archaeologists are reporting from Iraq: U.S. Archaeologists Paint a Mixed Picture of Looting Damage By Martin Gottlieb The New York Times June 11, 2003 nytimes.com Significant archaeological sites have been looted of tens of thousands of objects since the beginning of the war in Iraq, although some of the most famous of them have escaped unscathed, American archaeologists who surveyed the country last month reported today. ... Some of the sites, McGuire Gibson of the University of Chicago said, had been so extensively ransacked that they looked like "Swiss cheese." This was the result, said the team leader, Henry T. Wright, a University of Michigan archaeologist, of "major, massive looting of sites in a search for items saleable on the antiquities markets." ...

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