[colorado tanker]

Wow, did this thread get highjacked in the meantime.

I really hope this report isn't true and the statue is intact or suffered minor damage. It is a magnificent piece.

[flaglady47]

“I really hope this report isn’t true and the statue is intact or suffered minor damage. It is a magnificent piece.”

WAS a magnificent piece. ISIS is very thorough in their destruction of actual human beings as well as statues of antiquity. They destroy these larger statues with bulldozers, so the odds of anything being able to be retrieved and patched up are slim to none. They use beheadings on real people. The barbarians are at the gate, and they will destroy the gate too after they go through it.

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, I'm afraid so, big time hijack; the destruction of antiquities is a consequence of the fact that Islam still exists, and modern Islamic terrorism was brought to us by the USSR. So was liberation theology.

FReeper Grampa Dave perhaps said it best:

If Hiterily gets elected with enough votes in Congress, these will be the good old days.

The purists, who will stay at home because our candidate couldn't walk on water without getting the soles of his Teva's wet will have gifted us with another Clintoon pillaging. *