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BBC Arabic investigates the looting of Iraqi National Museum

Monday, 14 December 2009 16:54

Six years after it was looted in the wake of the US-led invasion, Iraq’s National Museum comes under the spotlight of BBC Arabic television’s investigative programme, Lajnat Taqqasi Al Haqqaeq (The Fact-Finding Commission) at 19.20 on on Tuesday 15 December 2009.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2003 invasion, priceless antiquities dating 7000 years back to the Babylon, Ur and Nineveh civilisations were plundered from Iraq’s National Museum. The restored museum was reopened in February 2009. However, according to the museum’s Heritage Department, only 7000 of the 15000 pieces of unique artefacts that were looted have been brought back.

In this episode of Lajnat Taqqasi Al Haqqaeq, presented by BBC Arabic’s Norma Hajj from Baghdad, the programme examines the efforts to return the stolen artefacts to the Iraqi nation, asks what legal measures are taken to stop their auctioning and discusses the security of the restored museum’s treasures.

Norma Hajj is joined by journalist, Adel Alardawy; Professor of History, Ali Alnashmi; and lawyer, Hasan Sha'ban, as she speaks to Iraq’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Dr Kahtan Aljbouri and other Iraqi top officials.

Lajnat Taqqasi Al Haqqaeq is a panel of independent people who get to the heart of the matter by investigating various social, political and economic issues. The panel calls expert witnesses and key commentators to examine their knowledge and capture their insights on the key issues. Linked from London, the programme is recorded on location around the region.

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