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Re: "Can't some Iraqi loot me a Sea Fury please" N/T
Posted by Steve T on Tue Apr 15, 2003 05:12:04 PM
In reply top "Can't some Iraqi loot me a Sea Fury please" N/T posted by Politically Incorrect on Tue Apr 15, 2003 08:38:31 AM
PI--
Interesting idea...But Bob's reply just dents the surface re what's up with historic artifacts in Iraq now. Indeed, much that survived the bombing campaign has since been lost or destroyed amid the anarchic conditions as the Hussein regime toppled. There was a wrenching report the other day by a UK journalist who found himself in the basement store of the Baghdad Museum...amid millions of shards that used to be priceless artifacts dating back as far as 4500 BC. The place had been missed entirely by coalition bombs--just as in 1991--but what ordnance didn't do, out-of-control looters managed to achieve. Terribly sad. All in all...I tip my hat to Tallichet and Jurist for getting that famous batch of Furies out of Iraq while the getting was good!
S.