Allied troops bypass holy sites

Washington Times ^ | 3/27/03 | Larry Witham

[kattracks]

The U.S. military expedition into Iraq has skirted ancient sites named in Jewish and Christian scriptures and apparently avoided sacred turf where Shi'ite Muslims had their historic and bloody showdown with rival Sunnis.

Troops that invaded from the south crossed territory called the cradle of civilization and traditionally considered the site of the Garden of Eden. The troops passed by Abraham's birthplace of Ur and the heart of ancient Sumer, whose poetry told of a creation and flood like that in the book of Genesis.

[Judith Anne]

I can see the reason for this, but I wonder...if they would hide wmd somewhere that would be deliberately left unharmed...

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

They should at least be thoroughly inspected - this is the perfect place to hide WMD, tanks, ammo.....

[chainsaw]

My thought exasctly. If we can think of that, it has already gone through command centrals mind too.

[Lynne]

I concur. What better place to dig and hide WMD than archeaological sites where digging goes on anyway? From the satellite pictures it might look like just another dig. Look in and under that new gate and temple Saddam built in Babylon.