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almarst2003 - 09:56pm Apr 19, 2003 EST (# 11355 of 11500)

Organised looting - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2961521.stm

Anger is mounting across the world at the loss of the ancient statues, manuscripts and other treasures.

Three White House cultural advisers have resigned in protest at the failure of US forces to prevent the looting of the museum.

PRESUMED MISSING 80,000 cuneiform tablets with world's earliest writing Bronze figure of Akkadian king - 4,500 years old Silver harp from ancient city of Ur - 4,000 years old Three-foot carved Sumerian vase - 5,200 years old Headless statue of Sumerian king Entemena - 4,600 years old Carved sacred cup - 4,600 years old

As well as the national museum in Baghdad, a museum in Mosul has been looted.

And Baghdad's Islamic Library, which housed ancient manuscripts including one of the oldest surviving copies of the Koran, was ravaged by fire.

The UN's cultural agency Unesco has called the loss and destruction already suffered "a disaster". It has urged Iraq's neighbours and the international police, Interpol, to watch out for any Iraqi items which might have been stolen from its museums.

Thousands of Iraqi artefacts were also looted during the Gulf War in 1991.

Business Plan - Execution - Profit.

almarst2003 - 10:02pm Apr 19, 2003 EST (# 11356 of 11500)

The US War on Iraq is producing a frightening rash of `anti-American' sentiments across Asia.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=3485

almarst2003 - 10:05pm Apr 19, 2003 EST (# 11357 of 11500)

Children Main Victims of Cluster Bombs - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0419-05.htm

almarst2003 - 10:14pm Apr 19, 2003 EST (# 11358 of 11500)

Cheney "will finally have to answer questions about exactly who was participating in the formulation of our nation's energy policy." - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0418-05.htm

lchic - 10:38pm Apr 19, 2003 EST (# 11359 of 11500)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

""But, in a further sign of chaos, looters can now be seen selling stolen weapons and ammunition - including Kalashnikov assault rifles - openly on the streets.""

Seems that the 'effort' put in by looters is paying-off ... that's why they looted.

The guys dragging the BRONZE of statue - looting it - will sell the bronze - to be re-worked, perhaps into more pleasing aesthetic mode.

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Diffusion

So many of the ancient artifacts were created via SLAVE labour - the sweat of the unwaged

cash is the wave that washes them offshore - abroad - some may not be 'seen' again for decades, some never.

'A time' to turn from the past to look to a better future!

lchic - 10:51pm Apr 19, 2003 EST (# 11360 of 11500)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Iraq and Ruin --- Thinking 'outside the square'

bbbuck - 12:58am Apr 20, 2003 EST (# 11361 of 11500)

22 posts in 22 seconds good response.

I thought alarmist might have been given 'the boot'. I guess not.

Hey alarmist on webcrossing.com there are many good international forums where many people spend many man-hours posting anti-american stuff.

Plus you can post images.

lchic - 05:34am Apr 20, 2003 EST (# 11362 of 11500)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts."

How to cook those figures?

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