Looted Sumerian sites now resemble the surface of the moon (5)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-04-29 23:09 ID:6M1J/kSa

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4461755.stm
"An alarming report by the keeper of the British Museum's Near East department, Dr John Curtis, describes how areas in the middle of the archaeological site were levelled to create a landing area for helicopters and parking lots for heavy vehicles.

"They caused substantial damage to the Ishtar Gate, one of the most famous monuments from antiquity," he wrote.
"US military vehicles crushed 2,600-year-old brick pavements, archaeological fragments were scattered across the site, more then 12 trenches were driven into ancient deposits and military earth-moving projects contaminated the site for future generations of scientists."

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2 Name: Alexander!DxY0NCwFJg!!muklVGqN 2005-04-29 23:53 ID:Heaven

I hope they manage to conquer Iran too. There are two main benefits to this:

1) They can create a unified "antiquity free zone" with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, which the Taliban laid the foundation for.

2) They can fuse their conflict with that of the Russians in Chechnya. This way, they could co-operate in losing troops to "terrorist" attacks daily. There should be sufficient mutual oil interests too.

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I'm getting a bit tired of this whole conflict. Maybe you can tell?

3 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-04-30 01:26 ID:6M1J/kSa

Teah.

4 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2005-04-30 01:27 ID:6M1J/kSa

arrrrrgh I meant "Yeah". I'm tired too.

5 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-04-30 13:19 ID:EP9J5095

Somehow I managed to read the title as saying that looted Sumerian sites had been transported to the surface of the Moon.

This seems a good idea to me - let's get to work.

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