Saturday, May 17, 2003
Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / US adjusts museum loss figures
Maybe I'm a bit slow, but this is the first I've heard of fighting actually going on at the museum.
[...]The last of the museum staff fled April 8, in part because Iraqi gunmen were holed up in a storage room and the children's wing at the museum, which is near a Republican Guard base on a main boulevard. Several US soldiers were killed and wounded during firefights at the museum.[...]
Then there's this. There were rumors of this, now confirmed...
[...]US investigators also say they learned of a ''secret'' safe house used since 1990 to hold artifacts, but museum staff have refused to divulge its location until a new government is formed and American troops leave Iraq.[...]
What the hell? So these Ba'athist insiders who ran the place were giving press conferences about this "great tragedy" and laying all the crap out at the feet of the US, when they knew damn well that many of the originals (it's said that much of what was on display were replicas) were stashed away. So how can we confirm the actual number of artifacts missing unless everyone comes clean?
