http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23698122/
Iraqi extremist groups are now tapping into the nation's vast antiquity
smuggling networks to help finance their attacks, a U.S. military expert on
stolen artifacts said Tuesday at a U.N. conference.
Marine Reserve Col. Matthew Bogdanos, who led the military probe into the
looting at Baghdad's National Museum after the fall of Saddam Hussein,
claimed both Sunni insurgents such as al-Qaida in Iraq and Shiite militias
are taking funding from the trafficking in antiquities.
Bogdanos, a New York assistant district attorney, noted that kidnappings and
extortion remain the insurgents' main source of funds. But he called the
link between extremist groups and antiquities smuggling in Iraq as
"undeniable."
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Dave Welsh
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