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To: JPR who wrote (12423)	9/9/2002 8:50:26 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

The sacred steel with infinitesimal remains sold as scrap to India I recommend that the civic organizations reimport the WTC Steel and install them as monuments in all the states of the US, thus honoring the dead. Why was there a rush to sell them so fast? What is sacred for Americans is inauspicious to Indians. That shouldn't be so, reimport it--JPR 3. India Considers World Trade Center Steel Scrap Inauspicious Source: rediff.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 4, 2002: Indians are shying away from World Trade Center scrap steel shipped to the country to be recycled, afraid its history makes it "inauspicious." But it may be more than that -- it may be lethal. Critics say India has become the developed world's dumping ground, rapidly poisoning itself and its billion-plus people with toxins from both the waste and the pollution from the sometimes dangerous methods used to recycle it. The world's second-most populous country combines low wages, lax environmental laws and a huge domestic market for the recycled products, says Suneel Pandey, a researcher with the Tata Research Energy Institute. About 70,000 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center was shipped to India before it was stopped by objections from environmentalists and unions, says Greenpeace India. Greenpeace says the scrap is contaminated by asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls, plastics and the lead, mercury and other contaminants in the computers and fittings inside the twin towers destroyed last year. A preliminary study in India found no toxins, but Greenpeace and other environmental groups question the study's accuracy. Indian scrap dealers are now having trouble selling the WTC steel for other reasons. "People are having some reservations. It's a sentimental matter," said O. P. Bajpai, an adviser to the Indian Steel Alliance lobby group. "In India, it's a matter of belief," he said, refusing to comment on other issues about the WTC scrap.

To: JPR who wrote (12423)	9/10/2002 8:46:28 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

Out of Pakistan-Hindu artifacts Hindu artifacts from Pakistan are sold to any buyer and end up in museums, because the pakis have no value for such things. What is left is either deep inside the earth or what the moghuls did not destroy and it is better that they are out of pakistan. The islamic world has no respect for Hindu artifacts or artifacts of any religion. It goes with their belief. Read the following to know what I mean. No tawaaf(4) around an object other than the Ka'bah is permitted as an act of worship. A kiss, as an act of worship may be given to nothing other than the Black Stone of the Ka'bah. --JPR Theft of antiquities Besides the British and a few European museums, Pakistani antiquities have now started appearing in celebrated American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. But these grand displays can hardly be termed a matter of pride for Pakistan, as, according to a former director-general of the archaeology department, these antiquities were stolen, smuggled out of the country and purchased by the said museums at auctions in Europe. He also said that in accordance with the terms of the Unesco charter governing antiquities, the government of Pakistan would be within its right to demand the return of all such stolen relics from the host countries. That our world-renowned archaeological sites at Moenjodaro, Taxila, Harappa and elsewhere in the country, lie in a state of utter neglect is as widely known as thefts and smuggling of antiquities out of the country. Recent scandals involving theft of antiquities from the Lahore Museum and the disappearance of Maharaja Ranjit Singh's horse-trappings cast in gold from a Lahore Fort museum are only but two such incidents. While there is a real need to strengthen vigilance at the sites and museums housing national heritage, the former archaeology chief is right in suggesting that the government should pursue the restitution of all such antiquities with the foreign governments concerned, as and when they resurface abroad. Pakistani missions abroad must also be required to watch out for any Pakistani antiquities that routinely go up for auction in the western capitals. Together, the two measures can help curb the theft and smuggling of the antiquities by making the criminal activity a risky affair rather than a safe and lucrative one.