US forces turned Babylon's ancient wonder into Camp Alpha


	US forces turned Babylon's ancient wonder into Camp Alpha

arifsali

7-29-2009 5:50 PM

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7-29-2009 10:11 PM

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Conquerors supplant existing history with their own.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c9a9e29f-12e4-4798-85ef-5801df649312/BED4ABA7-0C8D-4761-AEDE-71E178C9F441/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802835.html?hpid=artslot" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802835.html?hpid=artslot" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802835.html?hpid=artslot">"They destroyed the whole country," Hamzah, the head of the Babylon museum, said of U.S. forces in Iraq. "So what are a few old bricks and mud walls in comparison?"
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802835.html?hpid=artslot">U.S. forces did not exactly destroy the 4,000-year-old city, home of one of the world's original seven wonders, the <SPAN id="apture_prvw3" class="aptureLink "><SPAN class="aptureLinkIcon"> </SPAN><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging%20Gardens%20of%20Babylon" class="aptureLink snap_noshots">Hanging Gardens of Babylon</A></SPAN>. Even before the troops arrived, there was not much left: a mound of broken mud-brick buildings and archaeological fragments in a fertile plain between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802835.html?hpid=artslot">But they did turn it into Camp Alpha, a military base, shortly after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Their 18-month stay there caused "major damage" and represented a "grave encroachment on this internationally known archeological site," a <A target="" href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183134E.pdf">report</A> released this month in Paris by the United Nations' cultural agency, UNESCO, says.
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