Sunday, July 19, 2015

"Proof" of Terror Funding by Collectors?


The anti-collecting archeology lobby has rolled out a group of objects being repatriated to Iraq after being seized from the home of jihadist and terrorist financier Abu Sayyaf, taken out by a Delta Force stealth attack. They say these are artefacts being used to finance terror in Syria. But are they?  A few hundred minor antiquities and Islamic coins (including fakes and a few objects said to be stolen from the Iraq Museum) were found, but if this haul represents the quantity, quality and monetary value of what is stored in those fabled "warehouses" postulated to hold fabulous treasures intended to fund ISIS and its insurgency, hype again has indeed far outstripped reality.

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