[CPProt.net] Re: Iraqi looting of cultural heritage -

[Paula Kotakis]

One former subscriber wrote:

> ... I no longer wish to receive emails of opinions. Only facts. 

Well here's a fact for you whining imperialist oinkers:

    The United States and Great Britain are signatories of The
    Hague Convention of 1954 for the protection of cultural
    property in the event of armed conflict. 

Want to read more, this time from an Arab perspective?  Link 
follows.  Hopefully the whiners have already unsubscribed from this 
fine forum.

--Paula Kotakis, museum guard, San Francisco

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/633/hr2.htm

Countless Iraqi historical monuments have already been destroyed 
and we continue to hear more reports of damage. Nevine El-Aref 
traces the steps taken, and not taken, to preserve the country's 
heritage