Jeffrey Schuster revisits the looting of the Iraq National Museum in the days following the fall of Saddam Hussein, and how foreign journalists grabbed misinformation fed them by "museum officials" - Baath party appointees - without skepticism or verification, and ran with it.
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It also turned out that the number of archeological treasures stolen from the IRAQi National MUSEUM was not, as repeated over and over again, 17,000 but well under 1,000, and that many of these were reproductions.
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Thousands of stolen Iraqi artifacts found
"Mr. George said much of the thievery was done by insiders"
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The LOOTING of “thousands of priceless artifacts” from Baghdad's MUSEUM was lamented as one of the great tragedies of historical preservation, until it was revealed that relatively few pieces were taken, many of them reproductions.
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He noted that the 170,000 number was flat-out wrong; that the actual losses, though serious, were much smaller than initial reports suggested; and that MUSEUM officials might have been complicit in the LOOTING. “Smart money still seems to be on the involvement of Ba’athists and/or MUSEUM employees,” he wrote.
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BOGUS BUSH SCANDALS RECAP
(see #18)
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Following the looting of the IRAQi National MUSEUM, an event that would later turn out to be far less serious than initially reported and mostly an inside job, Reuters quickly determined who was responsible. The looters? Certainly not, at least according to Tareq Abdulrazak, whom Reuters identified as a "scientist." "The Americans watched this happen. It is not enough to destroy our buildings, our people? Now our history, too?"
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