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Iraqi and Syrian antiquities are being smuggled onto the black market to fund insurgent groups

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In the Las Vegas Guardian Express, Steven Killings (@steven_james201) noted a case in 2008 where Iraqi security followed a ‘tip that important Iraqi monuments were going to be smuggled’ out of the country and sold on the black market to raise funds for insurgent groups, and ‘recovered 228 ancient Mesopotamian artifacts that had been plundered […]

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