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Experts Revise Scope of Theft from Iraq Museum.
By Tom Hundley, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 16--BAGHDAD--The preliminary report on the looting of the National Museum of Iraq is expected to be released by the Pentagon on Friday, but after spending several days inspecting the damage, McGuire Gibson, professor of Mesopotamian archeology at the University of Chicago, has reached his own verdict.
"We have dodged a bullet," he said Thursday after walking through the corridors of the ransacked museum where glass from smashed display cases crackles underfoot and ancient Assyrian statues knocked from their pedestals lie on the floor like bodies at a crime scene.
"Through some luck and some real preparations by the museum staff, we have saved a lot," Gibson said.
The preparations included moving hundred of boxes…
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