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On the Trail of the Iraq Museum's Treasures (1st hand account of recovery efforts)
Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, September 18, 2003 | COL. MATTHEW BOGDANOS

Posted on 09/18/2003 9:51:08 AM PDT by presidio9

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:49:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In mid-April it was widely reported that over 170,000 artifacts had been stolen or looted from the museum in Baghdad. From the outset, the primary goal of this investigation has been the return of these antiquities to the Iraqi people, not criminal prosecution.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: artifacts; iraq; looting; museum; quagmire; rebuildingiraq; recovered

1 posted on 09/18/2003 9:51:10 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
They just recovered the mask.
2 posted on 09/18/2003 3:48:00 PM PDT by Milligan
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To: RadioAstronomer; Torie; Physicist; Fifth Business; Theresa
ping

Blast from the past; the latest

3 posted on 09/18/2003 6:42:51 PM PDT by wideminded
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