Iraq Museum Director Describes “Crime Of The Century”

The director of Iraq’s National Museum goes to London to describe what happened to his museum. “The looting was the crime of the century, Dr Donny George told representatives from some of the world’s leading museums at a meeting in London. The meeting, at the British Museum, saw photographs of the vandalism and heard that many of the 170,000 items in the collection had vanished. The aim of the London summit was to decide what can be done by the international community to restore Iraq’s devastated heritage.”