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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