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August 21st, 2003

More on museum looting in Iraq [Aug. 21st, 2003|03:57 am] ⋅ Extent of Looting at Baghdad Museum Unclear [Biblical Archaeological Review] ⋅ Plundering the Past: The Rape of Iraq's National Museum [Archaeology Odyssey] and, for comparison I guess, The Destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria [A.O.] in the same issue ❄❄❄ My previous entries [lj]. Link Leave a comment

Август [Aug. 21st, 2003|01:16 pm] [ Current Mood | contemplative ] Фото Дм. Лихачёва. Link Leave a comment

Sarindar in Iraq? [Aug. 21st, 2003|02:19 pm] [ Current Mood | sceptical ] As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take orders from the Soviet KGB, it is perfectly obvious to me that Russia is behind the evanescence of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. [...] The Soviet Union and all its bloc states always had a standard operating procedure for deep sixing weapons of mass destruction — in Romanian it was codenamed "Sarindar, meaning "emergency exit."Iimplemented it in Libya. It was for ridding Third World despots of all trace of their chemical weapons if the Western imperialists ever got near them. [Washington Times] Interesting, but... does not read as a very reliable source. Or does it? Link 3 comments|Leave a comment

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