June 24, 2005

Looted art used to fund terrorists

Wealthy art patrons are buying stolen artifacts from Iraq and inadvertently funding terrorist activity, Donny George, the director of Iraq's National Museum, said Thursday. Some of the objects are entering the U.S., he said. "People in the international community must stop buying these things....This money is going to the terrorists," he said at a UNESCO conference on Iraq's cultural heritage.

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