Army commander denies Polish archaeological vandalism in Iraq.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Polish international satellite TV service on 18 January

[Presenter] In the view of the Ministries of National Defence and Culture, the report by British historians about the destruction in Babylon is exaggerated.

This is a kind of battle of Babylon. On the one side we have British historians and on the other our army. The military is denying and is outraged by accusations about the destruction of one of the oldest cradles of civilization.

If it were not that our forces were stationed there, there really would be just ruins left from the ruins of Babylon, commanders say. They are …