From: Judy Folkenberg 



Glenn Meadows wrote:

> >>>Still doesn't mean that the bulk of the stuff in the vaults were not
remove
>
> long ago.  How could the looters open the vaults?  With an invading force
> coming into Baghdad, why didn't the curators move all the displayed
> artifacts into the vaults?  Seems there's some lack of foresight on the part
> of the Iraqi curators as well.  I mean, it's not as if they didn't know that
> the "Infidels" weren't coming. --

The curators had prepared for the museum pieces to be bombed not looted.
And crowbars work very well.  On a smaller scale, let me tell how we
protect our rare books.  We're prepared for fire in the incunabula room
(oxygen is immediately removed) prepared for flood, and as I stated earlier
even prepared for a bomb.  We are not prepared for looters.  Looters can do
what fire and water cannot do.

Judy

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