Looters not actually Iraqi?

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Looters not actually Iraqi?

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Just watching a little MSNBC and apparently a lot of these looters are foreign nationals recruited by Uday Hussein. US Soldiers are now hunting these guys down and they are getting a lot of local assistance in doing so.

Think it was these guys who looted the museum?
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I don't think that's the case. There seem to be too many looters to be all foriegn. Some might be but I doubt all of them.
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Darth Fanboy wrote: Think it was these guys who looted the museum?
It appears that they were mostly insiders, and hired goons of private collectors. Hopefully the FBI will track down as many of these assholes as possible and bring them to justice, and bring the Iraqi's property back to their museum.
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Queeb Salaron wrote:Hey! Someone deleted my post! It was funny! Put it back up!

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There had been talk that some of them were working for someone, and trying to get the most valubale pieces. I'm sure the people working for someone went to places like the museum, while there were more Iraqi civlians looting the palaces.
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