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 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > ========================================================= > Important Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).