Looters with vault keys target Iraqi antiquities abroad
Experts say organized professional thieves outside Iraq used vault keys to plunder Babylonian Sumerian and Assyrian collections during the invasion aftermath. FBI Interpol alerted to track artifacts moving through Europe the US and Japan as UNESCO calls for embargo and return guidance.
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Iraq
McGuire Gibson
American Association For Research In
Baghdad
Mesopotamia
Gibson
A 'S
Collec
Europe
United States
Japan
FBI
Interpol
Salma el Radi
el Radi
Koichiro Matsuura
Unesco
Congressmen Press Arafat Amid West Bank Gaza Clashes
A US congressional delegation met Yasser Arafat and prime minister designate Mahmoud Abbas to push a US backed peace plan linking Palestinian statehood to de facto power for Abu Mazen. Clashes in the West Bank and Gaza left two teen deaths as the road map seeks a halt to violence and possible provisional state this year.
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Arafat
West Bank
Gaza
Jerusalem
Yasser Arafat
George W. Bush
State Department
Mahmoud Abbas
Abu Mazen
Nick Rahall
D-W.va
Gaza Strip
Rafah
Probe finds British forces aided Protestant killers in NI
Sir John Stevens led a four year inquiry revealing collusion by the British army and police with Protestant extremists in Belfast during the late 1980s. He cited Ulster Defence Association links with Special Branch and the army to prevent killings while also enabling others. The report described the findings as a disaster for the rule of law and hoped for peace efforts amid government talks.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
John Stevens
London
Metropolitan Police
Ulster Defense Association
Police Special Branch
Army
Stevens
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