Not just the Museum now:


ABC News is reporting the looting and burning of Iraq's National Library and
National Archives, to follow on from the destruction of the National Museum.
See ABC site: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s831324.htm

and

"As flames engulfed Baghdad's National Library yesterday, destroying
manuscripts many centuries old, the Pentagon admitted that it had been
caught unprepared by the widespread looting of antiquities, despite months
of warnings from American archaeologists..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,937094,00.html

and

"So yesterday was the burning of books. First came the looters, then came
the arsonists. It was the final chapter in the sack of Baghdad. The National
Library and Archives — a priceless treasure of Ottoman historical documents
including the old royal archives of Iraq — were turned to ashes in 3,000
degrees of heat. Then the Islamic Library of Qur’ans at the Ministry of
Religious Endowment was set ablaze. I saw the looters..."
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=25219

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