the attempted theft of the dragons in Babylon

[donsu]

so US troops tried to dig out carved parts of the dragon gates of Ishtar

apparently the troops haven't heard of the rage dragons go into when someone messes with their treasures.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. I hadn't heard this. US troops vandalized the Dragon Gate?

Link?

[donsu]

3. I posted this story yesterday or the day before but don't have link now

on a scale of 1 to 10 my searching skills are a 2

[DrWeird]

2. They've also been driving over artifacts with tanks.

According to archaeologists as per a blurb I saw on CNN but haven't found elsewhere.

Here's a story:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=415655&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Funny how we criticized the Taliban for doing essentially the same thing.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. We yelled when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas in Afghanistan,

and protested when the Serbs destroyed the 14th century bridge in Sarajevo.

But that was when we still had some credibility.