[Let's Roll]

"This site should of been protected on day #1.

Why? Do you have some emotional attachment to replicas?"

The perfect cover for items that were looted by Saddam & Co. years ago. A British curator who visited the museum recently, 1-2 years ago, said there were many fakes on display. But so much the better if you can blame the Americans for not preventing the "recent looting".

[TomB]

The perfect cover for items that were looted by Saddam & Co. years ago. A British curator who visited the museum recently, 1-2 years ago, said there were many fakes on display. But so much the better if you can blame the Americans for not preventing the "recent looting".

Exactly. And it wasn't just Saddam and his cronies. It is becoming apparent that the staff of the museum was probably padding their own bank accounts over the years by selectively selling off items and replacing them with replicas. The fact that the written records and even computer hard drives were destroyed by the "looters" bears that out.