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this website] Al-Ahram Cairo, Sunday, March 21, 2004 
Empty
shelves at looted Iraqi Museum of
AntiquitiesIraqi artifacts
stolen by US invaders auctioned on
internet [The following report appeared in the
semi-official Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram
for Sunday, March 21, 2004, crediting "news
agencies" and date-lined Washington.] A WEBSITE has appeared on the
internet displaying Iraqi objects stolen by US
troops and putting them up for auction to website
visitors. The objects up for auction include gift items,
art works, and prayer rugs stolen from the palaces
of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Silver
vessels, copies of the Holy Qur'an stolen from
government offices in Iraq are also up for
auction. A spokesman for the US military command in Iraq
told the American news station CNN that US soldiers
must be prohibited from having such items in their
possession, and from transporting them out of
Iraq. 
Liberation and looting latest: Boston
Herald reporter's looted Iraqi painting
seized, gloats Boston Globe (owned by The
New York Times) | But where were they heading?
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Forty-two
stolen Iraqi artworks seized from journalists in
Jordan
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The
looting of the Iraqi Museum of Antiquities: was
it pre-planned, to order?
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[At right:] Helpful
US Marines fix squeaky Baghdad door (which
happens to be of Gold)
>>>>
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In
which Robert Fisk notes the colors of a bus
". . . Who was he working for? In
whose interest is it to destroy the entire
physical infrastructure of the state, with its
cultural heritage? Why didn't the Americans stop
this?"
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Looting latest: GIs
arrested in $1million Swag Snag, says N Y
Post
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Madeleine
Albright's pa 'took war loot to America'
complains Austrian family
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Madeleine Albright's outspoken demands
for return of Jewish war loot
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Who
looted the Hungarian Gold train in 1945?
(iin German) |
US
Army looted Nazi train laden with Holocaust
Gold
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Paintings
of Adolf Hitler are still a federal
case | Supreme
Court allows Army to retain looted
watercolours
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Outrage
at Atlanta-based firm's Internet sale of
silverware looted from Adolf Hitler
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