Skeptical Greg
6th May 2003, 12:47 PM
This is hillarious..
Marines accuse Baghdad museum of hampering hunt for treasures (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,950071,00.html)
The director doesn't seem to know there are vaults in the museum..
Dr Nawal al-Mutawazy, the museum's director, rejected the implication. "The Americans have asked for all the inventory of Iraq's museums and we did not supply them with it because most of the papers were scattered round the floor," she said.
Asked about access to the vaults, she replied: "Who says there are vaults?"
But Dr Jabel Khalil, chairman of the state board of antiquities, confirmed that there were vaults. "We can't answer the question of what has been lost until we investigate what we have, and that will take lots of time, because some of the looting was from halls and some from vaults."
Marines accuse Baghdad museum of hampering hunt for treasures (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,950071,00.html)
The director doesn't seem to know there are vaults in the museum..
Dr Nawal al-Mutawazy, the museum's director, rejected the implication. "The Americans have asked for all the inventory of Iraq's museums and we did not supply them with it because most of the papers were scattered round the floor," she said.
Asked about access to the vaults, she replied: "Who says there are vaults?"
But Dr Jabel Khalil, chairman of the state board of antiquities, confirmed that there were vaults. "We can't answer the question of what has been lost until we investigate what we have, and that will take lots of time, because some of the looting was from halls and some from vaults."