"So, there's the picture: 100,000-plus priceless items looted either under the
very noses of the Yanks, or by the Yanks themselves. And the only problem with
it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made up. It's bollocks.
Not all of it, of course. There was some looting and damage to a small number of
galleries and storerooms, and that is grievous enough. But over the past six
weeks it has gradually become clear that most of the objects which had been on
display in the museum galleries were removed before the war. Some of the most
valuable went into bank vaults, where they were discovered last week. Eight
thousand more have been found in 179 boxes hidden "in a secret vault". And
several of the larger and most remarked items seem to have been spirited away
long before the Americans arrived in Baghdad."
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