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To: KyrosL who wrote (92818)	4/12/2003 1:17:16 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

5,000 year old legacy down the drain. Yep. There are a lot of antiquities dealers licking their chops and waiting for a phone call.

To: KyrosL who wrote (92818)	4/12/2003 9:03:30 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

A friend of mine was with CNN during the Gulf war, handling the satellite uplinks. He told me that it was an absolute crime that an area like Iraq, which was once the cradle of civilization should suffer such destruction and looting of ancient treasures. So it sounds like more of the same, I'm almost surprised anything was left in the country there has been so much illegal antiques trade since then. It's been one of the bad but predictable side effects of the whole stupid and ineffective economic embargo the past dozen years. It's really too bad we dropped the ball with that museum though.