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Scholar Gets House Arrest in Iraq Looting

Posted by Tiglath (Guest) - Monday, November 22 2004, 23:51:06 (CET) from 161.114.228.151 - gemini-02.compaq.com.au Australia - Windows XP - Internet Explorer Website: Website title:

Scholar Gets House Arrest in Iraq Looting Monday November 22, 2004 10:01 PM NEW YORK (AP) - An expert on Iraq's postwar reconstruction was sentenced Monday to six months under house arrest and two years of probation for trying to smuggle into the United States 4,000-year-old artifacts stolen from Iraq's national museum in the chaos after the U.S. invasion. Joseph Braude, 29, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Allyne Ross in August to smuggling and making false statements. Braude could have gotten 16 years in prison. Braude is a Middle East expert fluent in Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi. For years he had assisted the FBI and CIA with counterterrorism efforts. When he returned from Iraq last summer, Braude was stopped by customs agents at Kennedy Airport after he failed to declare he was carrying three ancient marble and alabaster seals. He also briefly denied that he had been to Iraq. The seals had been stolen from the Iraqi National Museum during widespread post-invasion looting. Customs agents said Braude admitted during questioning that he bought the seals, dating back four millennia to Iraq's Akkadian period, from a black marketeer. Braude, the descendant of a prominent family of Iraqi Jews, studied Near Eastern languages at Yale University and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton University. He published ``The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East and the World'' last year. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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