Iraq's National Museum will stay closed (no security, no electricity)

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Iraq's National Museum will stay closed By ELENA BECATOROS, Associated Press Writer
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ATHENS, Greece - Iraq's National Museum, which has been closed since its antiquities were looted five years ago after the U.S.-led invasion, won't reopen when a partial renovation is complete in a few months, an official said Tuesday.

Museum and government officials say the museum building will not be ready and they fear opening the collection to the public could draw attacks or renewed looting.

Bahaa Mayah, adviser to Iraq's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, said the museum's roughly 200,000 items from the Stone Age and Babylon to the Assyrians and Islamic art are "in an unsuitable environment."

"We are not planning to open," Mayah said at an international conference in Athens on returning cultural objects to their countries of origin.

The museum lacks a security system, a reliable supply of electricity or a fire system, he said.

"It's very ... painful to see inside the museum," he said. "We lack everything. Just there is a building. But the building is not equipped, it's not ready."

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080318/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_national_museum;_ylt=ArR.yxaXdqOZYxnyyNCgwosLewgF

[mac2]

1. Yet there is a huge new embassy for the US

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. The "Superpower" can't guard one museum - in the country they invaded and occupied???

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The Superpower has only been there 5 years,

Some "Superpower"

[mac2]

3. First they protected the oil industry and the documents.

That alone showed their priorities and purpose.

I saw a program with the museum heads talking about the rape of their artifacts. Some dated back to early man and civilization. Similar to Rome burning the Alexander library isn't it? They said, they believed there were some British museum people who coveted their stuff and wanted it for some time.

Many of the items may show up on the black market but they feared they had been melted down, etc. They destroyed an ancient culture for a new Christian one. When an official came back to the US they caught him with some of them. Guess they are in the Empire Builders homes.

The Bush (and Blair) gang have to be punished or we will never be safe.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. "The Bush (and Blair) gang have to be punished or we will never be safe." right on.

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Unfortunately - I don't think that is gonna happen.

The genocide will continue at the hands of the USA

So we are NOT safer after the USA's so called "war on terror"

USA just used this as a rationalization to have war wherever they want.

And the World is standing aside

Sad, so sad.

[mac2]

5. The Great American Robbery 911, Iraq, at home, etc.

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews3-27-07.asp

The robbery of the Iraq artifacts and wealth was a very sad event. Like the Romans we destroyed their libraries and stole their wealth.

http://www.savingantiquities.org/ They are trying to do something about it.

I have long suspected robbery was going on in our public museams. Many even "privitized" so their wealth can't be traced. Many have huge endowments and priceless art pieces. When I returned to my hometown and went to my favorite museam, my favorite Van Gough painting was gone. When I asked they said, it was out on loan. I contact the local FBI office and asked someone see that the collection is in place. Many museams have told the public that they "sold some pieces" since they have too much for storage.

Here in Chicago the directors of the newly "privitized public museam" lost $3 Million of the museams endowment in "bad investments to a friend's fund". There was a scandal but I don't know if they went to jail.

I guess they just "retired". Now that is "change of face law" is it not? He will be sipping Coke in the sun with the rest of the Neo Con "retired" on the Cayman Islands.

I knew Pataki was responsible for the gave away of Niagara Mohawk Power to the British. He privatized it and manipulated it from the people (with the help of the Bush Energy Barons). It was publicly funded at great expense by the people of Buffalo, NY. Now their city is in dire need of jobs. The once cheap source of power is gone. Toronto, CA gets a lot of the power now.

I don't hate the people of Tornoto, CA but think this deal was a shame. They have their own falls and could use nuclear power...no the nuclear power was placed in NY instead while they got the clean power of the falls. Even the nuclear waste is buried in NY where there was once good farm land. It is a huge land fill which you can see on Google (West Valley nuclear waste facitily).

What was Pataki rewarded when he left office? An appointment in the UN. Ya...did a good job Pataki, said Bush.

911 was a robbery too. Huge amounts of gold were stored in the WTC. A lot of it is still missing. A Bush was with the security company who protected it. I'd like an inventory of our gold reserves. That stored gold ours or from Iraq, etc.?

http://current.com/topics/88791432_gold_bullion Video.
http://www.takeourworldback.com/short/grove.htm What about how much gold was stolen on 911 from the WTC?
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a1001goldandsilver Nova Scotia gold?
http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20050215bushes_3.cfm Once again a Bush involved in a bank robbery? Image that?

Since the WTC had been previously attacked what was gold and FBI files doing there in the first place except to destroy and rob? One can only suspect the story of our government does not ring truth but criminal activity.

Vote no Republican into power and remove the "Republican like Democrats". When they say there are thieves in high places (a book of this tile) they mean it. They can not be allowed to walk away with their bag of plunder. A great robbery has taken place (not just in Iraq but here at home). They did it without an army too. The job was an inside one. No one else could have done it. They had motive and means. It was treason and robbery from within.