Very sad indeed. The Pentagon decision not to control looting seems the
wrong one imo

"Looters Ransack Baghdad's Antiquities Museum

By Hassan Hafidh

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Looters have sacked Baghdad's antiquities museum,
plundering treasures dating back thousands of years to the dawn of
civilization in Mesopotamia, museum staff said on Saturday.  They blamed
U.S. troops for not protecting the treasures.


Surveying the littered glass wreckage of display cases and pottery
shards at the Iraqi National Museum on Saturday, deputy director Nabhal
Amin wept and told Reuters: "They have looted or destroyed 170,000 items
of antiquity dating back thousands of years...They were worth billions
of dollars...."  more at:

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=2554810

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2942449.stm


tim

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