Sunday, 13. April 2003

Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 10:02:26 AM CEST

Looters Ransack Baghdad's Antiquities Museum

They blamed U.S. troops for not protecting the treasures.

Surveying the littered glass wreckage of display cases and pottery shards at the Iraqi National Museum on Saturday, deputy director Nabhal Amin wept and told Reuters: "They have looted or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands of years...They were worth billions of dollars."

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