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Officials begin difficult task of accounting for missing museum items.
Byline: Bill Glauber
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ Two days before Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities was looted of priceless objects, leading curators said they fled the museum complex when Fedayeen Saddam guerrillas entered the courtyard and fought U.S. Army tanks.
"When we saw these people in our garden firing at tanks, we said, `Oh, we'll be hit,' " said Donny George, a museum official.
George and several others retreated to safety, returning five days later to discover the museum trashed by looters and several of the collection's most valuable pieces missing.
At the time of the looting, there was fighting in the area, and U.S. Army officers argue that they could not have turned their attention to securing the museum without jeopardizing their troops.
On Saturday, George said it remained unclear how many valuable items were lost to looters who ransacked the museum over three days, April 10-12. A lack of power generators and lightning is hampering…
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