[CPProt.net] Baghdad Museum - looted before the war started

[Christopher Seal]

As I put it to Ton some time ago, the so-called "Director" of the Baghdad Museum was an appointee of Saddam Hussein, and, as a matter of fact, one of his Al-Takriti cousins. When the report came through that the Museum staff were packing up the display for "safe keeping" I predicted to Ton that the Director was actually boxing up his personal retirement fund and that anything that would be remain in the Museum after the then upcoming conflict would be minor stuff, all the rest would already have been spirited out of the country for sale.
The "looting" which occurred by the general public was a cover for the real looting, which took place over the past couple of months. I look forward to seeing what turns up on the art black market. No doubt we'll be seeing important items surfacing from time to time over the next seventy-five years.
Christopher Seal
 
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