[EMMAS] "unidentified" journalists caught with paintings looted
che...@cs.pdx.edu
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:56:57 -1000
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/24by7panews/page.cfm?objectid=12868348&method=f
ull&siteid=50143
Looted paintings seized by customs
15:07, Apr 19 2003
Jordanian customs officials have seized 42 paintings believed to have been
looted from Iraq's national museum.
The paintings were taken earlier in the week at al-Karameh border post from
unidentified journalists entering Jordan from Iraq and were sent to the main
Customs Department in Amman, said the officials, well-informed on the
confiscated items.
The paintings were being verified for authenticity but that preliminary
checks led to them to believe the material had been looted from Iraq, the
officials said.
Officials at the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, usually responsible
for investigating such matters, were not available for comment.
Ad-Dustour, Jordan's second-largest daily newspaper, broke the news in a
short article quoting Mahmoud Qteishat, the director general of the
Jordanian Customs Department.
Qteishat reportedly said after border customs discovered the paintings, he
instructed his officers to "take all necessary measures to confiscate any
stolen items from the Iraqi national museum and library" -- which were
targeted by looters following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Al-Karameh border post has been Iraq's lifeline since sweeping UN sanctions
were imposed on Iraq in the wake of its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The desert
outpost was used for shipments of food, medicine and other humanitarian
supplies to Iraq and for passengers embarking on a 12-hour overland trip to
the Iraqi capital.
Al-Karameh is 260 miles north-east of the Jordanian capital Amman.
=========
*** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.***
----- End forwarded message -----
#################################################################
" Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the
zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent
minorities, and not through the mass." Emma Goldman
To SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE to the emmasdance list send email to
<majo...@cs.pdx.edu>
with the message subscribe/unsubscribe emmasdance. [No subject is
needed.]
"If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution." Emma Goldman
#################################################################