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2004-04-15 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-04-15 4:20:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How did that happen?
I only pressed the button once, but there is an ant-virus scan on my computer being run at present.
Please delete one, Fred.

Posted by tipper 2004-04-15 4:24:47 AM|| 2004-04-15 4:24:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 did they look on Chirac's mantle?

Posted by B 2004-04-15 9:12:23 AM|| 2004-04-15 9:12:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I heard an interview with Col. Bogdanos, and he is due to rotate out of Iraq. One he's gone, there's no. body. else. Nada. The rest of the missing artwork will go un-looked for.

Posted by Anonymous4119 2004-04-15 9:56:17 AM|| 2004-04-15 9:56:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We'll put that in our list of priorities... right after drinking water, reliable electricity, public education, local representative government...parking meters, comfy bus stop benches, and baby duck sanctuaries.

Posted by Dar 2004-04-15 10:26:40 AM|| 2004-04-15 10:26:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Start with the homes and safe deposit boxes of the Ba'athists who looted the museum. Then work your way around the art world -- private collectors, auction houses, etc. Assemble the intel and build the links.

Golly gee, isn't this what Interpol is for? Why the ~~pissing and moaning~~ complaint to us? The LLL wants a more vigorous law-enforcement effort, here's the perfect place to start.

Posted by Steve White 2004-04-15 11:29:01 AM|| 2004-04-15 11:29:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It will never cease to amaze me how well the LLLs play the blame game.

Everyone knows it was Saddam's goons and the Ba'athists who ransacked the place, yet it's everyone else's job to clean up the mess and to take the blame.

Posted by Unmutual 2004-04-15 12:00:40 PM|| 2004-04-15 12:00:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe there could be an amnesty day. A "don't ask don't tell" moment. Everybody who has treasure can return it without any charges.

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-15 12:10:22 PM|| 2004-04-15 12:10:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Lucky, that was the policy that Matthew Bogdanos used to recover many of the artifacts from the museum. He is a fantastic man; I have never seen a Jarhead anthropologist before but he is top notch.

The remaining missing treasures are from the crate of small items that professional thieves with inside knowledge walked through a number of undisturbed basement rooms and past numerous undisturbed cabinets to get to. Bogdanos is saying that he would need help from all EU members, the likeliest market, in order to track the items back from the supply side to the Baathist thugs at the other end of the transactions.

These items would have been easy to get out of the country and were minor enough items that they could have been sold without going through a specialist.

I saw some National Geographic special where they tracked back some of the treasures including renting a submersible pump to clear water from around the bank vault where the expensive stuff was found.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-15 4:27:08 PM|| 2004-04-15 4:27:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 He sounds like a standup guy doing a tough job our purported "allies" have stonewalled on. Keep the outrage!

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-15 4:38:14 PM|| 2004-04-15 4:38:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Thnkx Hoserman!

Posted by Lucky 2004-04-15 11:49:53 PM|| 2004-04-15 11:49:53 PM|| Front Page Top

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