US experts resign over Iraq looting

“Three White House cultural advisers have resigned in protest at the failure of US forces to prevent the looting of Iraq’s national museum – home to artefacts dating back 10,000 years.”

“Priceless statues, manuscripts and other treasures were taken away in a wave of lawlessness following the collapse of the government of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad last week.”

“It didn’t have to happen”, Martin Sullivan – who chaired the President’s Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for eight years – told Reuters news agency.” (from BBC via Bookslut)