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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (391592)	4/13/2003 11:30:32 PM
From: Techplayer	Respond to of 769667

Gordon, It was closed. It is unclear as to what Saddam left in there.

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (391592)	4/13/2003 11:37:29 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I suppose they could have put all the treasures in the same hiding place where they put the tons of VX and anthrax. According to the museum staff, they padded and crated the items and placed them in locked rooms which were broken into. Muhammad said he found an American Abrams tank in Museum Square, about 300 yards away, and that five Marines had followed him to the museum and opened fire above the looters' heads. This drove several thousand of the marauders out of the museum complex in minutes, he said, but when the tank crewmen left about 30 minutes later, the looters returned. "I asked them to bring their tank inside the museum grounds," he said. "But they refused and left. About half an hour later, the looters were back, and they threatened to kill me, or to tell the Americans that I am a spy for Saddam Hussein's intelligence, so that the Americans would kill me. So I was frightened, and I went home." What will become of the looted artifacts? Fortunately the Americans have a plan, one they began to put into place before the physical looting began. education.guardian.co.uk Apparent lobbying by American art dealers to dismantle Iraq's strict export laws has heightened fears about the looting of the country's antiquities as order breaks down in the last stages of the war. TP