BAGHDAD MUSEUM STRIPPED (from the New York Times via The Command Post):

Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum Of Its Treasure

By JOHN F. BURNS

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 12 � The National Museum of Iraq recorded a history of civilizations that began to flourish in the fertile plains of Mesopotamia more than 7,000 years ago. But once American troops entered Baghdad in sufficient force to topple Saddam Hussein's government this week, it took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters.

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Nothing remained, museum officials said, at least nothing of real value, from a museum that had been regarded by archaeologists and other specialists as perhaps the richest of all such institutions in the Middle East.

I feel sick.