August 4, 2008
Iraqi museum displays blown up
[The Mines Advisory Group] MAG has destroyed 16 mortars, two projectiles and three 'VS -50' anti-personnel mines, following an urgent request from a museum director who suspected that a display of military vehicles contained live items.Full article here.Amna Sooraka museum was the site of the Sulaimaniyah Security Department under Saddam's regime. It now provides a memorial to the victims of the Anfal campaign, a military operation against Kurdish villages between 1986 and 1989 in which tens of thousands of civilians died or were moved to collective towns.
Posted by David on August 4, 2008 10:23 PM
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talk about a military history display! Fun! I'd MUCH rather see live ammunition - but maybe that's a boy thing.
On an Afghanistany Museum note I just saw the show at the Nat Gallery of stuff from the National Museum, Kabul. Pretty neat stuff, but perhaps not worth the trip from further than the suburbs of NoVa. I'll blog about it.
Posted by: Michael Tinkler on August 5, 2008 7:30 AM
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