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Iraq Museum looting

Durwood — Mon, 05 May 2003 19:17:46 -0800

Oh never mind.... The vast majority 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 pieces, not tens of thousands, are now believed to be missing, according the Chicago Tribune. Can this be true? Registration required.

Mosul burns

delmoi — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:04:51 -0800

"This isn't freedom, this is bullshit"

To Loot Or Not To Loot - That Is Not Our Question

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 12 Apr 2003 00:13:44 -0800

Let The Iraqi Looters Loot: there's pleasure and there's payback in looting! [A little more inside]

Policeman to the World?

Dunvegan — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:59:21 -0800

Policeman to the World?
Andrew Buncombe in Nasiriyah reports on this "liberated" city "where looters run wild and death stalks the streets."

"While much of the Iraqi army and Fedayeen militia may have been destroyed or forced underground, the city has been given over to lawlessness and looting. Yesterday, the Saddam Hospital itself was pillaged by a gang of 20 armed looters, who made off with a haul of drugs. They even looted several of the hospital's ambulances. What is clear is that Nasiriyah is neither safe nor secure. If this is an example of how the war will unfold in other cities throughout Iraq, it does not bode well.