From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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.  Unless they curators
really believed Baghdad Bob!!!

--
Glenn M.


"Judy Folkenberg"  wrote in
message news:3E9A2E59.21BE9660{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov...
>
>
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>
> > >>Agreed.  Who's to say that the museums hadn't been
emptied months ago
and
> > moved to a private collection (maybe of his) somewhere, or somewhere
else. I
> > doubt that the artifacts meant much to him.
>
> Except the news reports hundreds of looters carrying off valuable objects.
> These are eyewitness accounts.
>
> Judy
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Glenn M.
> >
> > "Tony Ingenoso"  wrote
in message
> > news:3e99f54f{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > The NYT is perfectly capable of repeating other's propaganda.
> > >
> > > Doesn't the 170K number strike you as a bit odd?   I don't see where
> > ordinary looters will be interested in that sort of thing.  All
> > > the other reports showed them hauling off more common household stuff.
To
> > haul off 170,000 of anything within 48 hours will require
> > > quite a number of looters and substantial logistics.  One can't eat
> > artifacts and any that come on the market will be highly suspect
> > > and compared against existing records for quite some time.  Its sort
of
> > like stealing the Hope diamond - how do you sell it or
> > > profit from it once you've got it?
> > >
> > > My belief?  The place had been pre-looted quite some time ago by
Saddam.
> > It would not suprise me if we find all this stuff in some
> > > sub-sub-sub basement bunkers in one of the palaces.  Palaces sprout
like
> > mushrooms over the last 10 years, museum closed for past 10
> > > years.  Coincidence?
> > >
> > > "Judy Folkenberg" 
wrote in message
> > news:3E99D4A2.C59E7747{at}mail.nlm.nih.gov...
> > > >
> > > > "Geo." wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > From the NY Times...hardly a propaganda sheet:
> > > >
> > > > "...it took only 48 hours for the museum to be
destroy, with at
LEAST
> > (emphasis
> > > > mine) 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters."
> > >
> > >
> > >
>

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