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To: GST who wrote (138922)	7/6/2004 12:52:18 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Here's some REAL info GST....MOST interesting archaeological sites....Iraq... Many pictures and articles.... cctr.umkc.edu Including: from Iraqi Press Monitor....11 Feb 2004 iwpr.net Saddam officials stole ancient artefacts (Al-Nahdhah) – In an interview, Minister of Culture Mufeed al-Jazairi said officials of the former regime supervised digs at archaeological sites in order to steal statues, tablets, and many other relics and smuggle them abroad. A senior official in the department of heritage and relics said that Ali Hasan Majeed, nicknamed 'Chemical Ali', built a huge palace at the archaeological site of Al-Warid Hill, while Arshad Yaseen, Saddam's former bodyguard, smuggled a very precious handwritten copy of the Torah for a huge sum of money. (Al-Nahdhah is issued thrice weekly by the Independent Democrats Movement.)

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