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Article: Hunt continues for illegal antiquities.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 4, 2006
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Byline: Kate Moser Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Three years after he first stood in a dark, hot vault in Baghdad's National Museum, Col. Matthew Bogdanos's mission is far from complete.
Colonel Bogdanos, a marine reservist, led the investigation into who stole some of the world's most valuable Mesopotamian artifacts in the wake of the Iraqi invasion. He wrote a book about the experience, and he now plans to return to his job in the Manhattan district attorney's office, where he wants to lead the charge against the global trade in illegal antiquities - many of them looted from archaeological sites in Iraq.
"The trade in illegal ...