posted April 17, 2003 at 9:06 a.m. MDT
Awwww geez ...
Library books, letters and priceless documents are set ablaze in final chapter of the sacking of Baghdad [Independent | Argument | Commentators] - "... Then the library of Korans at the Ministry of Religious Endowment was set ablaze.
I saw the looters. One of them cursed me when I tried to reclaim a book of Islamic law from a boy of no more than 10. Amid the ashes of Iraqi history, I found a file blowing in the wind outside: pages of handwritten letters between the court of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who started the Arab revolt against the Turks for Lawrence of Arabia, and the Ottoman rulers of Baghdad.
And the Americans did nothing. ..."