Iraq's stolen artefacts

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2003, May 17 - Since the fall of Baghdad, anarchy has reigned in this city of five million. Everyone is armed to the teeth, and shooting can be heard around the clock, especially at night. Shots are fired in warning, in fear, or in celebration, when a district is suddenly supplied with power for two hours a day. The greatest worry is therefore security. All former government employees, hundreds of thousands of teachers, doctors, professors and civil servants, have not been paid for almost two months. Theft, robbery and murder are daily fare. Armed robbers commit carjacking in broad daylight.
Particularly shocking for most Iraqis was the fervor with which their infrastructure and cultural heritage has been destroyed. Many independent eyewitnesses are unanimous about this. Apparently the infrastructure of this ancient state was systematically plundered, district by district. Whatever was not worth the taking, was destroyed. In museums, libraries and cultural centers, in the country's 15 universities, in every ministry with the exception of the Ministry of Oil, in hospitals, state warehouses, hotels, banks, palaces of government ministers, and also in the German Embassy, the French Cultural Institute and the UN-Building. Even at the beginning of May, plundering continued throughout the day. A resident reports how US soldiers commanded chance Iraqi bystanders on the museum grounds, to go into the museum and help themselves: 'This is your treasure, get in!'

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Education

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• Middle-East
• Iraq
• looting
• museums
• art
• culture
• heritage
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[phillisthebarbarian]

@S1rFapsalot it's true sir. The seond night of attacks in 2003, there were many (many) reports of a few dozen white vans that pulled up to various museums in Bagdad and the artifacts were stolen. I believe that some of the artifacts hid secrets of our true (alien) past and the NWO wasn't going to have it... Why is this so hard to believe?

[ThReAsHeR007]

Durka Durka

[S1rFapsalot]

LOOOL! So this report claims the US military is stealing artifacts and giving them to Israel ??? You must be joking. @#$% These terrorist news agencies and their anti american propaganda BS. All they are doing is trying to promost a war against Israel. Afghanis are claiming the same shit and Cairo tried to claim it too untill the Museum director got caught stealing the artifacts and hiding them in his basement.

[nancyl2]

WOW!! I am not ugly really, dear friend. I checked out your channel, you have some great stuff as your fave's, SOOO you cannot be that bad. ;-) --I see you caught me at the beginning of my awakening Path I was told I would be doing.* Jan.9, 2009 I met a guide through a "I hate American" comment. I replied, kindly + guess what, He was a brilliant being checking out where people are at consciously. Isn't that cool?? So hope you do not hate me for having an opinion, even though it may be muddled.<3

[ichiban1990]

@nancyl2 sure don't know how ugly you are but don't speak for me

[nancyl2]

Then people ask why do people from other countries hate Americans. for god sake give these owners their history back to the museum.Big bullies that we are. We want to horde hundreds of bombs where it would only take one of them to wipe out the earth--Soo why horde hundreds and hundreds of these bombs?? What a wonderful country we are living in, we allowed this crap to go on long enough, face our uglieness and heal the world and our universe.Peace and Love.

[layla22or]

my god they steal every thing...not only the land and the resources!!!!!!! but also the history!!!!!!!!! it really breaks my heart... dear irak