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Published Date: 23 February 2009
Baghdad: The National Museum in Iraq is set to re-open, nearly six years after it was looted in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion.
Many of its antiquities were stolen at that time, and only a small proportion have been retrieved.

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  • Last Updated: 23 February 2009 10:25 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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23/02/2009 14:26:03
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Jim A,

23/02/2009 17:19:05
#1 HVERGALMER, why do you assume that it was American troops that did the looting? If you think back you may remember that Saddams palace and other sites such as museums were looted by the Iraqi people before British or American troops entered the cities.
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Finnking,

Lempäälä 23/02/2009 17:27:14
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/loot-a19.shtml

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23/02/2009 22:35:19
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Carolyn 1,

23/02/2009 23:10:20
Even Reuters manages to say "while U.S. troops stood by."

It was a tragedy, and one we watched nightly on our televisions,.... everyone around the world watched...
whoever had a television was witness to the looting; and so we watched, just like every fake reality tv show unfolds, waiting for the next exposure, the next cameraman to show more civilization dragged out into the street and driven away.... where was the international hunt or legal action to stop the selling of it on the black market?

We can only hope that, not unlike all the art stolen by the Nazis and slowly being returned to the rightful owners, we should also hope that as Iraqis take pride in their new country, they will return the stolen art and artifacts to the museum.

They should consider a program for it to be returned and not prosecute the person

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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D8123BF930A25757C0A9659C8B63

 

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