ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) The seller of one secondhand rug lists the previous owner of the roughly Customers can also bid on silverware embossed with the Iraqi army’s crest "They didn’t say anything bad about taking the rugs home, or artifacts. But Cmdr. Dan Gage, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said soldiers "Would this fall under that? I don’t know," Gage said.<\/p>\n Dearinger said decisions about what was a legitimate souvenir were left from CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Sale: One white leather sequined jumpsuit found in Hussein Presidential compound in Bagdad. Guarenteed authentic… ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A year after the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq, items touted as having come from Saddam’s palaces … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sadelv.jpg\")
For Sale: One white leather
\n sequined jumpsuit found in Hussein Presidential compound in Bagdad. Guarenteed authentic…
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\n — A year after the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein’s
\n government
\n in Iraq, items touted as having come from Saddam’s palaces have turned
\n up for sale on the auction Web site eBay.<\/p>\n
\n 6-by-9-foot piece of carpet as ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n
\n and a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, which is purported to be
\n from a Baghdad compound.Both Cramer and Dearinger said
\n the items they’re now selling were declared and cleared by U.S. Customs
\n upon their return home.<\/p>\n
\n They considered them war trophies," Dearinger said.<\/p>\n
\n are not allowed to bring back "war trophies" — only legally
\n purchased souvenirs.<\/p>\n
\n up to individual commanders. But Gage said the regulations covering war
\n trophies don’t appear to leave much to an officer’s discretion.<\/p>\n