Symbolic Victory: Art Treasures Stolen from Baghdad Museum Recovered

I wonder if we'll see six thousand video cuts of the treasures being returned to the museum.

- Iraqi soldiers have seized 228 apparently stolen antiquities and arrested seven members of a gang suspected of trafficking in such items, a security official in Basra said Tuesday.

Soldiers in Abi al-Khasib in southern Iraq's Basra province last week found 168 items and arrested five people in one raid and seized 60 more artifacts and detained two people in another, the official said.

The troops found sculptures, intricate gold jewelry, decorative silverware and ceramic bowls buried in gardens and under a stone slab in a kitchen.

Note that the article is not clear at all on whether these are among the objects stolen after the 2003 invasion. It mentions those, but doesn't say if these were from those thefts or later ones. Or even previous ones.

Thanks to Stumbo.

posted by Ace at 08:01 PM

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