Pamela:
--- Pamela Sezgin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I don't see where you get the idea that "museum officials in Baghdad
> deliberately lied about stolen artifacts" when Donny George, who is in charge
> of all the museums in Iraq was very clear right at the beginning that some
artifacts had been put in bank vaults by museum staff.
This comes from a post on this list from Tuesday:
(Nightline from ABCNews) TONIGHT'S FOCUS: Remember all of the reports after the
war in Iraq about the museums being looted? How priceless antiquities were lost
because U.S. troops didn't protect them? Well, it turns out that the truth is
quite different.
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It was seen as one of the first major failures of the U.S. rule of post-Saddam
Iraq. In the wave of looting that engulfed Baghdad after Saddam fell, the
museums were supposed to have been badly hit.... They were hidden in a vault
that was then flooded to protect it from looters. But the bottom line here? The
museum staff apparently lied, in part to discredit the American troops. So
we'll reexamine this whole story again.
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Deb
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