Will they get UN recognition soon enough?
I am suspicious. This was debunked some time ago. Time to do a Google search on this "journalist".
"We were making a documentary film on the country's cultural history and the archaeological sites at risk inside the war zones, in the hope that they might soon be afforded some protection," she explained from New York City, where she resides. Micah Garen went missing on 13 August 2004, but for Ms. Marie-Hélène Carleton, kidnapping is the most likely explanation.Uh huh...
He seems also to be a "French-American journalist". Some articles:
Here's the summary: Looting is still going on, but not nearly as bad as right after the invasion. But it's still a really, really bad thing.
He's kind of amateurish, a Johnny One Note, but despite the places in which he's published, his biased articles don't have the firebreathing property that I expect.
I don't know how he explains the early reports of looting which were almost wholly false and wildly overexaggerated.
Why would they want to harm their enablers?
Good news. I hope both he and the intepreter are freed soon.