I feel sorry for Robert Fisk! I really do. The poor man cannot seem to catch a break. He goes to Afghanistan during the war and he gets mugged by the Afghans. Now he is in Iraq and he is cussed at by the Iraqis while he is trying to "reclaim" books from 10-year-old kids! This is just so funny - I am sorry, but it is just really funny! I wonder if this man even understands how pathetic he sounds.
I saw the looters. One of them cursed me when I tried to reclaim a book of Islamic law from a boy of no more than 10. Amid the ashes of Iraqi history, I found a file blowing in the wind outside: pages of handwritten letters between the court of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who started the Arab revolt against the Turks for Lawrence of Arabia, and the Ottoman rulers of Baghdad.(link via blog-grandpa)
Update: Oh, and this AP story via The Command Post adds a pretty interesting spin to the looting stories.
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