Most antiquities found, unharmed

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 5/5/2003 | Christine Spolar (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)

[sjersey]

BAGHDAD - The vast majority of the Iraqi trove of antiquities feared stolen or broken have been found inside the National Museum in Baghdad, according to American investigators who compiled an inventory over the weekend of the ransacked galleries.

A total of 38 antiquities, not tens of thousands, are now believed to be missing. Among them is a single display of Babylonian cuneiform tablets that accounts for nine missing items.

The single most valuable missing piece is the Vase of Warka, a white limestone bowl dating from 3000 B.C.

[dirtboy]

Expect the NY Times to lead this story on Page 1 above the fold tomorrow ... NOT!

[PhiKapMom]

But how can this be? We were told there was massive looting of the Museums! (sarcasm)

Guess I won't hold my breath waiting for the truth to be told by the media either!

The media truly does have a pack mentality -- one lunatic reports massive looting of the Museums and all the rest of the media jumps on board! Did they never hear of investigative journalism to get the facts? Really glad we sent a team of investigators into the Museums or these rumors of massive looting would have continued as fact!

[ThomasMore]

A total of 38 antiquities, not tens of thousands, are now believed to be missing.

The liberal IDIOTS are proven wrong again!

[FourPeas]

No, no, no, no, no! The Americans botched the deal, didn't you read all the spectacular headlines about how we were wasting our time protecting people and looking for WMDs and allowing precious artifacts to be lost and destroyed? This obviously must be disinformation by those who really don't care about art.

[Wphile]

So the media hyped and exaggerated this story?! Why, I'm shocked!

Why is it that everyone else has to supposedly be held accountable but the media never is?

I HATE THE PRESS!

[EggsAckley]

Let's see.......what are the anti-war-weenies going to whine about now?

[RGSpincich]

So does that yoyo who resigned get his administration job back? He's been exposed for what he really was, whining scumsucking Clinton lackey. Geez. This is unreal. Even the stuff that seems to go wrong produces positive results.

[jackbill]

Fox News had an "exclusive" this morning - an interview with Col. Bogdanos. It contained a lot of info and went so quickly that it was easy to miss some of it.

Something like 5 of the top museum officials took an oath on the Koran to not cooperate with the Americans.

They showed many of the glass display cases that were not destroyed. If thing were looted from them, the looters had the keys.

The museum officials claim they can't find the keys to the storage areas.

Etc., etc..

[js1138]

My math's a bit rusty, but I estimate that 38 is about .02 percent of 170,000, making the liberal press 99.98 percent wrong on this.

[trebb]

Tom Daschole is saddened that we had so little control that we couldn't even get a close initial estimate of the irreparable damage we might have allowed to happen to the Iraqi culture.

[tictoc]

The most significant of the damaged pieces was the Golden Harp of Ur. But investigators determined that the golden head on the damaged antiquity, feared missing, was only a copy. Museum officials confirmed to investigators that the original head was placed in a storage vault at the Iraqi Central Bank sometime before the war.

Count me among those who got fooled by the initial news reports.

Grrrr.

[stylin19a]

Oh great !!! Now I suppose the 3 Clintonian appointed members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee who resigned in protest, will want their jobs back........NOT !

[Mister Baredog]

Guess I won't hold my breath waiting for the truth to be told by the media either!

FOX is reporting this, but we know how they are(sarcasm)

[Billthedrill]

I was flipping through the channels last night and happened on a CNN (yeah, I know) story absolutely agonizing over the lost treasure, for which we are all forever the poorer and should probably consider suicide, etc, etc...oh, no - this is one less thing to flog Bush with. If the humanitarian aid "disaster" doesn't eventuate they'll have to return to the WMD issue or make something up.

To their credit, the local lib'ral rag featured this story on the front page. As they should - 170,000 turning into 38 is a little difficult to reconcile with anything other than hysteria.

[3AngelaD]

I am shocked, shocked at the tacit suggestion in this story that the thefts might have been an inside job.

[PhiKapMom]

Fox News is just like my paper, The Daily Oklahoman. Either one of those outlets reports news like this and the liberal media scoffs at the reports! Cannot be true, those two outlets are biased!!!! Only biased if it is conservative according to the liberal Columbia School of Journalism!

[FourtySeven]

Keeper for later .... thanks

[xJones]

Expect the NY Times to lead this story on Page 1 above the fold tomorrow ... NOT!

Like others here, that gripes me no end. All that screaming and wailing - and now, it's a non-story.