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August 21st, 2003

• August 21st, 2003, 03:57 am

More on museum looting in Iraq

⋅ 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

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• August 21st, 2003, 01:16 pm

Август

Фото Дм. Лихачёва.

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• August 21st, 2003, 02:19 pm

Sarindar in Iraq?

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?

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