Deb et al,

There is an interesting UK perspective on this in the latest Global Museum
NEWS http://www.globalmuseum.org.

See  the story headed  <Lost from the Baghdad museum: truth
And the only problem with it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made
up. It's bollocks>

best wishes
Roger



----- Original Message -----
From: "Deb Fuller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: All is not lost in Baghdad Museums... - not a political issue


> 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.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
------
>
> 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.
>
> -----------
>
> Deb
>
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