Deb, you rock!  But this, in my opinion, is the final word on the subject,
from an article by Paul McGeough of the Sydney Morning Herald:



Another of the museum archaeologists, Raed Abdul Ridha Mohammed, 35, was
one of the staff who raced to fetch the marines...

"If we had stayed under Saddam Hussein we'd still have the collection."



Eugene Dillenburg
Exhibit Developer
Science Museum of Minnesota

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