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So Much for the Hand-Wringing...

Now the anti-warites will have to find something else to worry about:

Teams of American investigators searching in Iraq have recovered more than 700 artifacts and tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts that had been missing from the collection of the National Museum in Baghdad, some of them stored in underground vaults before the American invasion, American officials said today.

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The discovery of so many valuable artifacts would support the view of Iraqi museum officials and American investigators who have said that while many irreplaceable antiquities were looted from the museum during the fall of Baghdad last month, the losses were less severe than thought.
Earlier this week, a top official of the British Museum,

Source: U.S. Says It Has Recovered Many Artifacts and Manuscripts in Iraq