"Museum Looting" Apparently A Fraud

Don't you guys EVER get tired of being wrong?

New York Times, April 24:

At least 170,000 artifacts were carried away in the two-day frenzy of looting at the museum, home to one of the world's most extensive collections of Mesopotamian antiquities.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstra...DAD0894DB404482


New York Times, May 1:

Col. Matthew F. Bogdanos, a Marine reservist who is investigating the looting and is stationed at the museum, said museum officials had given him a list of 29 artifacts that were definitely missing. But since then, 4 items — ivory objects from the eighth century B.C. — had been traced.

"Twenty-five pieces is not the same as 170,000," said Colonel Bogdanos, who in civilian life is an assistant Manhattan district attorney.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/01/i...ial/01MUSE.html


For all of the howling about the disgraceful, disgusting outrageous and shocking disregard for the world's cultural legacy around here, doesn't it make you feel JUST a little silly to know that you were making all that caterwauling over 29 FREAKING PIECES?

No, sadly, probably not.