From the Sunday Herald in Scotland:

http://www.sundayherald.com/32895

Reports that an organisation representing antiquities collectors and art
dealers (American Council for Cultural Policy (ACCP)), met with high level
US Defence and State Dept officials before the Iraq conflict started, in
order offer their assistance in preserving Iraq's archaeological
collections. Apparently this is a group which favours a relaxation of Iraq's
laws on ownership and export of antiquities. They are said to support making
it easier for antiquities to be "dispersed" to the US, believing Iraq's laws
on this to be "Receptionist".

Opposition voiced from Archaeological circles;

..."Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, leading Cambridge archaeologist
and director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, said:
'Iraqi antiquities legislation protects Iraq. The last thing one needs is
some group of dealer-connected Americans interfering. Any change to those
laws would be absolutely monstrous...."

More at link above

tim

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