The Vase of Warka, one of the most treasured antiquities looted from Baghdad's famed museum after the fall of Saddam Hussein, was safely returned yesterday, officials said.
The ruling U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority said the vase, a centerpiece of the Baghdad Museum, was brought back by three Iraqis in a car and handed over to security staff at the museum, along with other looted items.
Of course this was the vase about which Secretary Rumsfeld quipped,
“Television is merely running the same footage of the same man stealing a vase over and over,” he joked, adding he didn't think there were that many vases in Iraq.
The whole thing is here.
Friday, June 13, 2003
SHOW THIS FOOTAGE ABOUT A THOUSAND TIMES and we'll declare the museum back to normal.
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