(via Command Post, Michele; EFL)
Jordanian customs officials have seized 42 paintings believed to have been looted from Iraq's national museum, government officials said Saturday. The paintings were taken earlier in the week at al-Karameh border post from unidentified journalists entering Jordan from Iraq and were sent to the main Customs Department in Amman, said the officials, well-informed on the confiscated items.
Say it ain't so! Now who would've believed that the press would do such a thing? (insert cynicism)...we need to know who it was
Qteishat reportedly said after border customs discovered the paintings, he instructed his officers to "take all necessary measures to confiscate any stolen items from the Iraqi national museum and library" — which were targeted by looters following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime last week. Al-Karameh border post has been Iraq's lifeline since sweeping United Nations sanctions were imposed on Iraq in the wake of its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The desert outpost was used for shipments of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies to Iraq and for passengers embarking on a 12-hour overland trip to the Iraqi capital.
And to bring in large amounts of US cash — see other posts — to be stashed rather than used for food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies .... |