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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (403128)	5/5/2003 9:18:26 PM
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"Did you see the pictures of the trashing of the museums???" Perhaps you should revisit those pictures. Many of the locked display cases were still locked & completely undamaged. How could looters get the items from those display cases without keys or damaging them? Most antiquities found, unharmed By Christine Spolar CHICAGO TRIBUNE .......Damage to the museum's administrative offices was extensive, with desks, wiring, water fixtures and chairs hauled out by looters. Artifacts, apparently obscured in some instances by the rubble left by looters, emerged largely unscathed. "There is no comparison in the level of destruction seen in the museum and that seen in the administrative offices," Bogdanos said. "It's absolute wanton destruction in the offices. We didn't see anywhere near that destruction in the museum. [People] stole what they could use. They left the antiquities." Investigators, still compiling information about what possibly occurred during the chaotic takeover of Baghdad by U.S. and British troops, are concluding that little damage occurred to antiquities displayed at the museum. Investigators counted 17 display cases out of 300 to 400 cases there as destroyed. Many of the items apparently were removed before the looting...... philly.com