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US shamed by looting of antiquities
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THE ACRID smell of cordite and burning metal consumed Mushin Hasan
as he drained the last of the "drinking water" supply from the
rusting air conditioning vent - around him, Baghdad shuddered as the
allied bombing continued into the night.
Three floors below, surrounded by sandbags in the cold darkness of
the basement, sat his remaining colleagues from the National Museum
of Iraq, devotedly guarding some of the world's most important
ancient treasures.
Even in the middle of the death and destruction, the assembled
historians and curators had no doubt about the gravity of their task - ...
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