Posted on 18/04/06
Tracking Baghdad's lost treasures
Even in an era when mobs in the streets of the world's cities have been cursing the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad stands out as a public-relations disaster, not to mention a crime against humankind's heritage. But on April 15, 2003, when a British journalist confronted a U.S. Marine colonel on patrol in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, and yelled, "You macho assholes are down here looking for missiles and money, and the finest museum in the world in Baghdad has just been looted," she by chance was yelling at one man who could be stung into action.
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