Wikileaks Provides Evidence Linking Illicit Iraqi Antiquities to Weapons Sales

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Larry Rothfield has been looking at the Wikileaks files on the Iraq war, and reports:
Wikileaks Provides Evidence Linking Illicit Iraqi Antiquities to Weapons Sales. The use of the wikileaks search engine reveals notes on other antiqu[ities] seizures (and some antiques) but they are not terribly intelligible, being both barely literate when written and then heavily censored.

See also now Owen Jarus on Heritage Key: 'Statues, Vases and 120 mm Rounds - Wikileaks documents tell harrowing stories of Iraq's antiquities'.

For the alternate view see Peter ("I am for the Shi'ites") Tompa: Wikileaks, Tariq Aziz, and Archaeological Amnesia (sic)

UPDATE: See now Larry Rothfeld's 'More from Wikileaks on Looted Antiquities Recovered in Operations Against Insurgents'.