Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Stolen artifacts are finally being returned to Iraq

Three 4,000-year-old marble and alabaster seals looted from the Iraq National Museum and seized by U.S. Customs from an American scholar were returned on Tuesday to Iraq's U.N. ambassador.

"At a time when most news broadcast about Iraq is depressing and negative, it is with great pleasure to mark this important, positive achievement," Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie told a news conference at New York's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.
  Reuters article
Dude!! An American - Yale and Princeton scholar, no less - bought them on the black market and smuggled them back to America, knowing they were stolen when Americans blasted in and took over the country! You're going to turn that into a good Samaritan story?!

Jumped up Jesus. We live in a looney bin.

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