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Overland trip from Amman (Jordan) to Baghdad, highway destructed by bombing |
Arrival in Baghdad |
Residential palace of the former president, Saddam Hussein |
Babylon Hotel, looted after
the bomb attack |
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| West bank of the river Tigris |
East bank of the river Tigris |
Ministry of Culture and Information, looted
after
the bomb attack |
A super-market, looted
after the bomb attack |
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A house of a civilian family
destroyed by the bomb attack |
Iraq National Archaeological Museum, with a hole made
during the battle between the
U.S. Army and the
Iraq
Presidential Army |
Iraq National Archaeological Museum : closer view |
Courtyard of the Iraq National Archaeological Museum |
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U.S. soldiers in the courtyard of the Iraq National Archaeological Museum |
Administrative office of
the museum after the looting |
Corridor of the administrative offices, devastated
by the
looting |
Devastated corridor of the administrative offices |
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Foreign journalists entering
the museum with permission of
the U.S. army |
Entering into the museum |
Corridor
of the
museum, devastated by
the
looting
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Devastated corridor of the museum
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| Beheaded stone statue |
Devastated corridor of
the museum
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Devastated corridor of
the museum |
Devastated corridor of
the museum |
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| Devastated corridor of the museum |
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Emptied exhibition hall :
objects had been transferred
to other places before the
looting
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Destroyed replica of the Site Gubba, excavated by Kokushikan University in the 1970's |
Emptied exhibition hall |
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Emptied exhibition hall |
Emptied exhibition hall |
Emptied exhibition hall |
Emptied exhibition hall |
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| Emptied exhibition hall |
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from
Tell Harmal
(Old Babylonian period) |
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Destroyed lion statue
from
Tell 'Usiyeh (Old Babylonian
period : excavated by
Kokushikan University in 1983) |
Devastated exhibition hall for relief sculptures of the New Assyrian period |
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Devastated exhibition hall for
the New Assyrian objects |
Devastated exhibition hall |
Emptied exhibition hall
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Emptied exhibition hall |
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Main entrance of an Iraqi army
facility, looted after
the
bomb attack
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Inside an Iraqi army
facility
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U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq |
Looted Iraq National
Central Bank |
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Iraq International Telecom.
Office, looted after
the bomb attack |
Main entrance of the Ministry
of
Sports, looted after
the
bomb attack : Saddam
Hussein's
son, Odai, had been
the minister
of Sports
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Destroyed Ministry
of
Sports |
Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, looted after
the bomb attack |
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Ministry of Oil which escaped
from the looting : this
ministry suffered no looting because
the U.S. Army strongly guarded
it to protect
documents for oil industries magazined inside |
Shiite leaders, executed
under
the rule of Saddam
Hussein (Saddam City, now
Sadr City) |
Looted objects that were being preserved at Sadr City :
looting had been the result of repulsion against the former regime of Saddam Hussein
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Looted trucks |
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Looted objects dismembered
for sale |
Looted objects dismembered
for sale |
@Looted objects returned to the museum in response to Shiite leaders' announcement |
@Looted object returned to the museum : a stone statue of the Sumerian period |
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| Looted object returned to the museum : a box for Hebrew document |
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