Art Pottery, Politics and Food
Friday, April 11, 2003
 
Wow. Posted yesterday on Josh Marshall's excellent Talking Points Memo this post from the BBC:
We've just learned from the US marines that the US flag that was put on the face of Saddam yesterday - it was replaced by an Iraqi flag when the people shouted for that - was the flag that was flying over the Pentagon on September 11.
I've been busy so I haven't read this before now. Wow. I can now understand the order given to the young Marine and his willingness to execute. But, the Iraqi people and Saddam haven't yet been connected to September 11. I'd like that flag kept safe for Bin Laden and whoever else was responsible.
From ABC News Online:
A Baghdad mob looted Iraq's largest archeological museum amid a breakdown in civil authority following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, an AFP reporter said.
A dozen looters helped themselves in ground floor rooms at the National Museum of Iraq, where pottery artefacts and statues were seen broken or overturned, while administrative offices were wrecked.
Two men were seen hauling an ancient portal out of the building, and empty wooden crates were scattered over the floor.
Upstairs rooms seemed to have been spared for the time being.
Iraq, among the earliest cradles of civilisation and home to the remains of such ancient Mesopotamian cities as Babylon, Ur and Nineveh, has one of the richest archaeological heritages in the world.
The museum housed a major collection of antiquities, including a 4,000-year-old silver harp from Ur.
International cultural organisations had urged that the archeological heritage of Iraq, one of the cradles of civilisation, be spared ahead of the US-led war launched on March 20.
- posted by Sean @ 9:37 PM
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