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To: SeachRE who wrote (391054)	4/12/2003 9:10:09 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

Has anyone mentioned that the "looting" of the museum may have just been a diversion. Maybe much of the good stuff was already taken by some of the Museum Managers (or other leading Baath Party members), something they can sell, when they start their lives over in Damascus, Paris or Moscow. "Sensing its treasures could be in peril, museum curators secretly removed antiquities from their display cases before the war and placed them into storage vaults - but to no avail. The doors of the vaults were opened or smashed, and everything was taken, museum workers said. That lead one museum employee to suspect that others familiar with the museum may have participated in the theft. "The fact that the vaults were opened suggests that employees of the museum may have been involved," said the employee, who declined to be identified. "To ordinarily people, these are just stones. Only the educated know the value of these pieces." washingtonpost.com