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Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasure
New York Times ^
| April 12, 2003
| JOHN F. BURNS
Posted on 04/12/2003 4:24:15 PM PDT by Mister Magoo
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To: Barnacle
Re:
This is serious This is sirius
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posted on
04/12/2003 8:29:30 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(288,007,154 Americans did not protest the war today)
To: knuthom
From the footage on Fox, it truly looked like a location that had been looted. Not an inside job. **
OH! just now they are showing a zoo that has been discovered -the animals are starving!! They're feeding them MRE's. * * Okay, back to the subject at hand- this was a fear going into the country that world history locations could be destroyed, as well as the artifacts they contain. Not sure that it could have been prevented. The damage is done now. *&^
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posted on
04/12/2003 8:57:11 PM PDT
by
mrebel2k
To: Mister Magoo
Yup. Its our fault. The whole thing. < /sarcasm>
If the DAmned museum was so concerned, they could have moved the stuff someplace else. I am sure everybody there saw what was coming.
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posted on
04/12/2003 9:13:11 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(I'm a man... But I can change... If I have to.... I guess...................)
To: Mister Magoo; All
Any truth to the claim that the museum was seen by the Iraqis to be strongly related to the Baathist regime, so its pillaging was like ransacking one of Saddam's palaces?? That is what I heard on another forum.
To: need_a_screen_name
CNN had a WINER on TV a few minutes ago talking about the loss of thousands of years of historical Items.
Please Liberal Whiners GIVE US A BREAK!
LIBERAL WHINERS DESPERATE to find something wrong.
To: agincourt1415
Thanks. Was there any mention of the museum's ties to the Baathist regime?
To: ChadGore
This is sirius
And, even more Sirius!
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posted on
04/12/2003 9:46:55 PM PDT
by
Barnacle
(A human shield against the onslaught of Liberal tripe.)
To: need_a_screen_name
Mentioning the connection of the Baath Party of course not.
CNN is DEAD in the WATER.
To: muawiyah
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posted on
04/13/2003 12:04:24 AM PDT
by
The Old Hoosier
(Support our troops: Bring them home as soon as possible.)
To: Squantos
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posted on
04/13/2003 12:06:38 AM PDT
by
The Old Hoosier
(Support our troops: Bring them home as soon as possible.)
To: ambrose
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of the valuables were probably stolen by the museum staff and directors, and they're using the looters to deflect blameI agree. The staff were probably intelligent enough to see the "handwriting appearing on the wall", over the past few months or weeks.
After all, they are students of history and have read about changes in regimes.
I'd bet some precious items were moved when the bombing began three weeks ago, if not before.
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posted on
04/13/2003 6:27:25 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(The Palestine Hotel sniper probably used a silencer, if he had ANY brains.)
To: syriacus; The Old Hoosier
A very critical paragraph in a current article said it all:
"A full accounting of what has been lost may take weeks or months. The museum had been closed during much of the 1990's, and as with many Iraqi institutions, its operations were cloaked in secrecy under Mr. Hussein." (SEE http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/international/worldspecial/13BAGH.html?ex=1050811200&en=38ca7bff5498a8f3&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE)
In short, the staff had YEARS, not days or weeks, to loot this museum. Some of those supposed staffers might well have been seeing the museum for the first time in a long time.
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posted on
04/13/2003 3:49:34 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
The museum had been closed during much of the 1990's, and as with many Iraqi institutions, its operations were cloaked in secrecy under Mr. HusseinThanks for pointing out this quote, muawiyah.
The looting might have been "allowed" to happen... in order to cover up what had happened to the collection in the previous months.
Similar to the way a robber sets fire to a site he has stolen from, with hopes of destroying the evidence.
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posted on
04/14/2003 5:41:39 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Baghdad museum staff - experts in history - SURELY knew something would happen)
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:46:07 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's the Obamacare, stupid! -- Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: SunkenCiv
What’s your point in resurrecting a thread this old?
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posted on
07/01/2011 7:53:16 AM PDT
by
Bob
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