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To: NickSE who wrote (101546)	6/14/2003 10:10:08 AM
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Iraq Museum Regains A Famed Treasure Missing Since April, Ancient Vase Returned By Unknown 'Ali Babas' washingtonpost.com BAGHDAD, June 13 -- This is how it happens in Iraq today. A shiny red Toyota, or maybe it's a Nissan, pulls up in front of the National Museum, along a busy roundabout on the Tigris River. Three men in their twenties step out cradling an object wrapped in a blanket and, eschewing the usual social niceties, hand it to museum officials. The officials say thank you. The men drive away. Thus was recovered one of the greatest treasures of Mesopotamian antiquity, a three-foot-high, 5,000-year-old ritual vase carved with intricate images of men, a goddess and nature. It is the Warka vase, a priceless artifact gone missing during the looting of the Baghdad museum after the fall of the city in April.....

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