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Missing (Baghdad) museum artefacts found safe in vaults
The Straits Times ^
| May 8, 2003
| The Straits Times
Posted on 05/08/2003 4:30:35 PM PDT by FairOpinion
WASHINGTON - More than 700 artefacts and tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts that had been missing from the National Museum in Baghdad have been recovered by teams of investigators in Iraq, US officials said on Wednesday.
Some of the missing works were stored in underground vaults before the United States-led invasion of the country.
The US investigators located the vaults over the past week.
They forced them open, revealing hundreds of artefacts that had apparently been stored there to protect them from being damaged in a US assault.
The find included ancient jewellery, pottery and sarcophaguses, officials said.
The discovery of so many valuable artefacts would support the view of Iraqi museum officials and American investigators who have said that while many irreplaceable antiquities were looted from the museum during the fall of Baghdad last month, the losses were less severe than thought.
Earlier this week, a top official of the British Museum, Mr John Curtis, said his Iraqi counterparts had told him that they had largely emptied display cases at the National Museum in the months before the start of the war, storing many of the most precious artefacts in secure hiding places. -- New York Times
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiquities; artifacts; baghdad; godsgravesglyphs; iraq; looted; lootign; looting; museum; safekeeping; treasures; vault; vaults
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To: FairOpinion
"Missing (Baghdad) museum artefacts found safe in vaults " news flash: "bush whitehouse" had iraqi antiqueties spirited away, before hostilities started, for safe keeping.
wow! these guys think of everything. way to go...
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:09:03 PM PDT
by
hoot2
To: hoot2
news flash: "bush whitehouse" had iraqi antiqueties spirited away, before hostilities started, for safe keeping.
wow! these guys think of everything. way to go...
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LOL! Good point. We get blamed for everything, even things we have nothing to do with, but would never get the credit.
To: FairOpinion
29 objects, 170,000 objects, 500 objects. What is it?
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:13:40 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: RightWhale
As they said, only 30-40 verifiable missing objects. The other numbers were just made up to make our troops and Bush look bad, in the moment of a great victory of liberating Iraq.
To: FairOpinion
This might have been cover for the real looting: the pillage and burning of the records of WMD in one of the Ministries at the same time. Heard that mentioned one time, no big deal I guess.
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:24:42 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: RightWhale
"the pillage and burning of the records of WMD in one of the Ministries at the same time."
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Most of the important records on WMD were hidden in homes of scientists, or so I read. I am sure there will be plenty of documents found on that too.
And there was no way to prevent some of the deliberate destruction of those records by the Ba'athists, who knew we were coming.
To: MizSterious; BOBTHENAILER; Howlin; Miss Marple; Dog; Dog Gone; hchutch; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
These phoney Freeper conservatives will never apologize. They live to savage GW, Rummy our military and republicans while pretending to be elite conservatives.
They are scum that exists below the level of the left wingers of America.
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:46:58 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Free Republic, where leftist liars are exposed 24/7!)
To: FairOpinion
The liberal media is beyond hope and redepmtion; they are bent for hell in their agenda. Disgusting how they live to twist truth, good thing many readers don't buy their deception.
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05/08/2003 5:49:37 PM PDT
by
Hila
To: Grampa Dave
"They are scum that exists below the level of the left wingers of America. "
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Actually, I think some of them ARE left wingers masquarading as Freepers. If you check the posts of some of these people they are consistent in sounding like a DU plant. And as the old saying goes "if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, even it calls itself a flamingo, it's still a duck"
To: MizSterious
*Crickets*
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:56:10 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Lauratealeaf; Fracas
Isn't it fun to be right? LOL!
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05/08/2003 5:56:49 PM PDT
by
terilyn
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:57:24 PM PDT
by
Bob J
(Freerepublic.net...where it's always a happening....)
To: FairOpinion
We are both probably right on who they are.
They are becoming really shrill re the economy and this latest McCoy Political Cartoon nails them.
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posted on
05/08/2003 6:05:17 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Free Republic, where leftist liars are exposed 24/7!)
To: FairOpinion
The news for the worthless Democrats just gets worse and worse.
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posted on
05/08/2003 6:05:18 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(The cosmos is God's holy scripture. His truth is there for all to read.)
To: MizSterious
And where the heck are the apologies from Freepers? I was going to ask that, but I was in a cross between irate and just plain mad.....I just couldn't get nice words out!!
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posted on
05/08/2003 6:15:05 PM PDT
by
Krodg
(We have the ability because the leader in command knows who's in control....God Bless America.)
To: Grampa Dave
Thanks for this great cartoon! It really nails them, as you say.
To: MizSterious
System seems to be having troubles lately!
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posted on
05/08/2003 6:18:25 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Iran will feel the heat from our Iraq victory!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The system is triple posting, pausing and other things. It needs an anti acid or something.
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posted on
05/08/2003 6:20:23 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Free Republic, where leftist liars are exposed 24/7!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Tornadoes again in the midwest and southwest.
My mother used to live in Midwest City very close to where the monster set down today and hit Tinker Air Force Base, the new GM Plant and Midwest City.
Prayers for those in these areas.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908152/posts
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posted on
05/08/2003 6:26:12 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Free Republic, where leftist liars are exposed 24/7!)
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