Thanks - if any have questions please let me know - as I am still involved
in multiple interests which include reviewing world scenarios and possible
causes and effects - chuck

"Life's field isn't arranged by vertical standards - it's horizontal by
design and so is Heavenly Fathers love and Kingdom - none should seek a
vertical leap - but all should remember we are all his children each with
different missions and that we'd be best about them - thus no comparisons
except with what we should be doing and what we are doing."  cji 4/18/03


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Maurer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: Baghdad antiquities update


Here is a note from Charles - Chuck - Ingerson that he posted on another
list. For your information in case you missed it in the papers.


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 10:21 AM
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Subject: All: Baghdad antiquities update



      Most antiquities found, unharmed

      By Christine Spolar
      CHICAGO TRIBUNE

      BAGHDAD - The vast majority of the Iraqi trove of antiquities
feared stolen or broken have been found inside the National Museum
in Baghdad, according to American investigators who compiled an
inventory over the weekend of the ransacked galleries.

      A total of 38 antiquities, not tens of thousands, are now
believed to be missing. Among them is a single display of
Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.

      The single most valuable missing piece is the Vase of Warka,
a white limestone bowl dating from 3000 B.C.

      The inventory, compiled by a military and civilian team
headed by Marine Col. Matthew Bogdanos, refutes reports that
Iraq's renowned treasures of civilization - as many as 170,000
individual artifacts - had been scattered or lost during the U.S.
-led war against Iraq. It also raises questions about why any of
the artifacts went missing.

      The looting may have occurred April 10-12, two days after
museum officials fled the grounds amid a battle in which gunners
of the Fedayeen paramilitary force entered the complex and began
firing on advancing U.S. tanks.

      In one instance, investigators found that intruders had
taken some less-valuable artifacts from a storage room in the
basement of the museum. That theft, in a little-known storage
area, has raised suspicions that the thieves had knowledge of the
museum and its storage practices.

      Investigators, armed with chisels and a sledgehammer, broke
through hastily constructed barricades Saturday to search several
large storage rooms in the museum.

      In one storage area on the second floor, they discovered
evidence of a gunner's nest. From debris left behind, investigators
concluded that a gunner was armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and
rocket-propelled grenades.

      About a foot from the gunner's lookout was a hole punched
through the wall by a 25mm shell. Investigators surmised that the
gunman fled after that single volley from allied forces.

      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.

      In addition, investigators have counted 22 items that were
damaged, including 11 clay pots on display in corridors. Most of
those damaged artifacts are restored pieces and can be restored
again, museum officials told investigators.

      The most significant of the damaged pieces was the Golden
Harp of Ur. But investigators determined that the golden head on
the damaged antiquity, feared missing, was only a copy. Museum
officials confirmed to investigators that the original head was
placed in a storage vault at the Iraqi Central Bank sometime
before the war.

      The inventory was compiled after investigators examined
five large storage areas in the museum Saturday to check for
looting. Each room was lined with shelves holding plastic
containers filled with envelopes of small, less-valuable
artifacts, such as individual beads or amulets.

      There was no apparent sign of forced entry to the storage
sites, and the doors were locked when investigators arrived.
Museum staff told investigators they had no keys to the room, so
investigators remain uncertain how entry was made.

      Investigators found that the basement storage area, which
held thousands of small items not deemed suitable for display,
had been disturbed in one of the four rooms. They broke through a
cinder-block barrier to the room to find hundreds of cardboard
boxes intact and about 90 plastic boxes, containing about 5,000
less-valuable items, missing.

      A boxful of such items was retrieved about a week ago near
Al-Kut, investigators said, and it is likely that the intruders
are attempting to move other such artifacts outside Baghdad.

Chuck

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