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To: TigerPaw who wrote (391588)	4/13/2003 11:25:58 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

On a serious note, are we sure there was anything in this museum? I thought it had been closed for some years.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (391588)	4/13/2003 11:33:06 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 769667

I see you are more concerned about material things than the 24 million Iraqi's freed from a brutal madman or your concern for our troops who are trying to give humanitarian aid while still fighting pockets of resistance. Yes, this is something you have objectively ridiculed, adamantly opposed & used as a means to relentlessly attack the Bush Administration. Your concern here is as transparent as your political agenda.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (391588)	4/14/2003 12:17:36 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

“The great surprise to all of us ... was what happened to the antiquities of Iraq after 1991,” he said. Figuring that the allies would bomb Baghdad,<font size=4> Saddam moved many of the nation’s great treasures out of the National Museum of Iraq<font size=3> to smaller sites in outlying towns. In the chaos that followed the American invasion and withdrawal, Iraqis looted those museums and began selling ancient artifacts on the black market. “Go to eBay, and you can find very valuable things,” Veenker said – stolen from Iraqi museums a decade ago. bgdailynews.com

To: TigerPaw who wrote (391588)	4/14/2003 12:24:50 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

goerie.com <font size=5>The looters also invaded a storeroom deep in the belly of the museum, behind 2-foot-thick steel doors. The doors seemed to have been opened without a scratch.<font size=3> Inside that storeroom, filled with many dusty artifacts, it appeared the looters rifled through some items, ignored others and left the floor littered with fragments of clay and stone, plus piles of papers. <font size=5>"The looting looked organized,"<font size=3> said Raid Abdul Mohammed, a museum worker deeply upset at the theft of artifacts that are the building blocks of human history.