Posted on 09/20/2010 9:44:28 PM PDT by Company Man
BAGHDAD More than 600 looted artifacts that were retrieved by the United States, shipped back to Iraq and then mysteriously lost finally have been found in the prime minister's warehouse alongside boxes of kitchen supplies, the Iraqi tourism minister said Monday.
The ancient pieces including clay pots, a bronze Sumerian figurine and stone tablets etched with cuneiform writing were returned to the Iraqi National Museum, resolving a real-life caper that began when many of them were stolen from a museum in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in 1991.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/20/100849/missing-iraqi-antiquities-discovered.html#ixzz108SKoh00
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LOL. This is like HRC’s Rose Law firm records. Amazing. They were there all the time!
The Prime Minister’s warehouse?
I’m sure he put them there for safekeeping and just forgot about them. Stuff gets lost in warehouses all the time.
Were American soldiers blamed for these thefts in earlier reports.
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Since they were taken in 1991, probably not.
Probably right. A warehouse is only as good as its records.
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