{"id":439,"date":"2003-08-17T17:56:20","date_gmt":"2003-08-17T21:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/17\/baghdad-looting-catastrophe-exagge"},"modified":"2003-08-17T17:56:20","modified_gmt":"2003-08-17T21:56:20","slug":"baghdad-looting-catastrophe-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/17\/baghdad-looting-catastrophe-exaggerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Baghdad looting catastrophe, exaggerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a201'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I know I&#8217;ve posted about this before, but I was so deeply upset, both at the initial coverage and at the recent equally-unprofessional retractions, that I&#8217;m pointing to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;node=&amp;contentId=A32129-2003Jun8&amp;notFound=true\">another<\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;node=&amp;contentId=A17897-2003Jun20&amp;notFound=true\">few<\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/news\/article.asp?idart=11155\">article<\/A>s on the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,979734,00.html\">subject<\/A>.<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT size=\"1\">Russell, too, had heard of the secret vaults. &#8220;They won&#8217;t talk about it, but almost everything was saved,&#8221; Russell said.<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Redux<\/STRONG>: some 10,000 items have been lifted from museums and archaeological sites; most professionally, and most items which cannot be melted down.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thousands more were damaged.&nbsp; Around 30 priceless items, of both public an research value, have disappeared.&nbsp; The Warka vase was returned, once more broken along its ancient cracks.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I&#8217;ve posted about this before, but I was so deeply upset, both at the initial coverage and at the recent equally-unprofessional retractions, that I&#8217;m pointing to another few articles on the subject. Russell, too, had heard of the secret vaults. &#8220;They won&#8217;t talk about it, but almost everything was saved,&#8221; Russell said. Redux: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}