Kuwaiti loot: where did it go?

Although most of the collection looted from Kuwait's National Museum has been recovered, almost all the jewellery, Islamic art and other works taken from wealthy Kuwaitis by the Iraqis during the six-month occupation has vanished. Only a few pieces have surfaced on the international art market, and none of it was found in Iraq after the war in 2003. . .

There are rumours that it has been smuggled out of Iraq and is being sold off in the Middle East to help fund the present insurgency.

One Kuwaiti whom Young spoke to showed him a photograph of Saddam sitting by a porcelain vase that had once adorned his home in Kuwait. The Iraqi dictator has of course been found, but the vase is still missing.

Posted by David on January 10, 2005 8:55 PM