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Archaeologists to refuse help over possible Iran strike
NewScientist ^ | 10 July 2008 | Staff

Posted on 07/11/2008 2:33:17 PM PDT by forkinsocket

PERSEPOLIS, once the capital of the Persian empire, and the massive mud-brick Bam citadel are among the nine listed World Heritage Sites in Iran. Yet leading archaeologists are urging colleagues to refuse any military requests to draw up a list of Iranian sites that should be exempted from air strikes.

"Such advice would provide cultural credibility and respectability to the military action," said a resolution agreed by the World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland, last week. Instead, delegates were advised to emphasise the harm that any military action would do to Iran's people and heritage.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: academia; archaeology; bombiran; godsgravesglyphs; iran; iraniannukes; persia; strike; un; worldheritage
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1 posted on 07/11/2008 2:33:18 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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Instead, delegates were advised to emphasise the harm that any military action would do to Iran's people and heritage.

Leftist politics first, academic work second.

2 posted on 07/11/2008 2:35:09 PM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: forkinsocket
leading archaeologists are urging colleagues to refuse any military requests to draw up a list of Iranian sites that should be exempted from air strikes.

The article offers no evidence that anyone has asked for their help with anything.

Unless they are digging right over a nuclear facility, or inside the perimeter of a Revolutionary Guard base, or right next to missile battery, they'll probably be alright.

3 posted on 07/11/2008 2:41:08 PM PDT by marron
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To: forkinsocket
So take out the sites. The muzzies will get rid of them eventually, anyway. Not muzzie, ya know. Nothing is valuable enough to allow some muzzie nut to usher in Armageddon.
4 posted on 07/11/2008 2:41:41 PM PDT by isrul (Help make every day, "Disrespect a muzzie day.")
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To: forkinsocket

As with the Caliph’s dictate regarding the Library of Alexandria, if it contradicts the Koran, it’s blasphemous, and if it supports it, it’s superfluous. They’ll eventually erase those sites, just as the Taleban did to the cliff Buddhas.


5 posted on 07/11/2008 2:49:50 PM PDT by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: forkinsocket
Qui tacet consentire videtur.

Sounds like we should just go ahead and blow-up everything to me.

6 posted on 07/11/2008 2:51:20 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Thoughtcrime: coming soon to a presidential candidate near you.)
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To: forkinsocket
colleagues to refuse any military requests to draw up a list of Iranian sites that should be exempted from air strikes...

OK, but you'll need a finer screen when you sift through the artifacts.

7 posted on 07/11/2008 2:51:44 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: forkinsocket

Then they better not bitch when some of them go kaboom.


8 posted on 07/11/2008 2:52:34 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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Yet leading archaeologists are urging colleagues to refuse any military requests to draw up a list of Iranian sites that should be exempted from air strikes. "Such advice would provide cultural credibility and respectability to the military action,

They must feel so self-rightious right now. Look at me. I am so morally superior.

9 posted on 07/11/2008 3:00:17 PM PDT by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
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what if the Iranians asked for help in not targeting Israeli sites of archeological significance?


10 posted on 07/11/2008 3:11:15 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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11 posted on 07/11/2008 3:11:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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Instead, delegates were advised to emphasise the harm that any military action would do to Iran's people and heritage.

But OTOH,a nuclear armed Iran ruled by 9th Century knuckledraggers who routinely call for the destruction of Israel while chanting "allah akbar" wouldn't cause a lick of damage to anyone.

12 posted on 07/11/2008 3:16:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The problem with the rat race is,even if you win you're still a rat.)
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We really, really, need to stop worrying about these sites. I don’t care if our enemies are hiding in the Sistine Chapel. If that is where they are, that is where we should bomb.


13 posted on 07/11/2008 3:18:11 PM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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To: FredZarguna

It will certainly prevent looting afterward.


14 posted on 07/11/2008 3:20:45 PM PDT by rabidralph (Dems now have Oil Derangement Syndrome)
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It will certainly prevent looting afterward.

The mullahtocracy has already seen to it that there's nothing worth looting to loot.

I'm just trying to be considerate of these poor academic types: can you imagine what a mess there'll be if they have to separate pre-historical rubble from historical rubble and contemporary rubble? And don't get me started on separating Betty Rubble from Barney Rubble - geez get a room, u 2, what are you, savages, cave-people?

Anyway... if it brings Imam #12 out of his hidy-hole, I'm all for it.

15 posted on 07/11/2008 3:35:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Thoughtcrime: coming soon to a presidential candidate near you.)
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“et leading archaeologists are urging colleagues to refuse any military requests to draw up a list of Iranian sites that should be exempted from air strikes.”

Then we should bomb them. Western civilization was at best tangentially affected by persia/iran. We are mainly greco/roman in origin, so persia’s relics and sites don’t factor into our history.

Bomb them back into the age from which they came..


16 posted on 07/11/2008 3:42:57 PM PDT by Liberty 275
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To: FredZarguna

What I meant was, it will save the networks the trouble of looping the same 10-second video of the fat guy carrying a 4-ft vase out of the building repeatedly.


17 posted on 07/11/2008 3:44:34 PM PDT by rabidralph (Dems now have Oil Derangement Syndrome)
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To: rabidralph
What I meant was, it will save the networks the trouble of looping the same 10-second video of the fat guy carrying a 4-ft vase out of the building repeatedly.

You're a charitable person, unfortunately, I'm not. Nothing -- including shipping a fake Persian vase and a fat Italian from a curio shop on 38th Avenue for an "essentially true dramatization" will keep the nets from looping that looter.

18 posted on 07/11/2008 3:52:17 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Thoughtcrime: coming soon to a presidential candidate near you.)
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To: FredZarguna
And don't get me started on separating Betty Rubble from Barney Rubble

Whiskey ......... Sprite ........ monitor.

You owe me!

19 posted on 07/11/2008 4:30:01 PM PDT by Eaker (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to have TheMom kill everyone you meet.)
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To: forkinsocket

The article didn’t mention any warning issued to Iran about archaeological damage caused by the threatened strikes on Israel. But then there wasn’t any.


20 posted on 07/11/2008 4:35:55 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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