Part 11: The Occupation of Iraq
1. John F. Burns, “Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasure,” New York Times, April 13, 2003.
2. John F. Burns, “Pillagers Strip Iraqi Museum of Its Treasure,” New York Times, April 13, 2003.
3. Michele Norris, Robert Siegel, Anne Garrels, and Dr. Dorry George, All Things Considered, NPR, April 14, 2003.
4. Ann Talbot, “US Government Implicated in Planned Theft of Iraqi Artistic Treasures,” World Socialist, April 19, 2003; Heather Cottin, “Looting of Iraqi Museum Was Long Planned,” Workers World, May 1, 2003.
5. Frank Rich, “And Now: ‘Operation Iraqi Looting,’” New York Times, April 27, 2003.
6. “Secretary-General’s Statement on Safeguarding Iraqi Cultural Heritage,” Secretary General Office of the Spokesperson, United Nations, New York, April 15, 2003.
7. Jacques Chirac, press conference at the ceremony of the signature of the Treaty of Accession of the new member states to the EU, Athens, Greece, April 16, 2003.
8. Leon Harris, “Secretary of State, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Address Reporters,” CNN Live Event/Special, CNN, April 14, 2003.
9. Matthew Bogdanos with William Patrick, Thieves of Baghdad (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005), pp. 210–11.
11. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction interview with Lieutenant General David McKiernan, December 5, 2006, as cited in Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009), p. 57.
12. Department of Defense notes of principals meeting, February 26, 2003; “Summary of Public Order Plan: Phase One,” March 2003.
13. Department of Defense news transcript, “DoD News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers,” April 11, 2003.
14. David Stafford, “Iraq Is a Mess. But Germany Was, Too,” Washington Post, April 6, 2008.
15. Guy Gugliotta, “Iraq Museum Is Slowly Recovering Artifacts,” Washington Post, September 15, 2003.
16. Melik Kaylan, “So Much for the ‘Looted Sites,’” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2008.
17. Melik Kaylan, “So Much for the ‘Looted Sites,’” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2008.
18. Matthew Bogdanos with William Patrick, Thieves of Baghdad (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005), p. 155.
19. Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (New York: Random House, 2002), p. 129.
20. Alex Spillius, “Media Blamed for Exaggerating Loss of Antiquities,” London Telegraph, May 22, 2003.
21. William Booth and Guy Gugliotta, “All Along, Most Iraqi Relics Were ‘Safe and Sound,’” Washington Post, June 9, 2003.
