U.S. scholar pleads guilty to looting artifacts from Iraq

U.S. scholar pleads guilty to looting artifacts from Iraq
By Associated Press, 8/4/2004 02:46

NEW YORK (AP) An expert on Iraq's postwar reconstruction has pleaded guilty to smuggling 4,000-year-old artifacts looted from the country's national museum after the U.S. invasion.
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His lawyer said after the plea that Braude had for years assisted the FBI and CIA with counterterrorism efforts, a contribution that should persuade the judge to keep him out of jail.

Braude studied Near Eastern languages at Yale University and Arabic and Islamic history at Princeton University before publishing ''The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East and the World'' last year.

Braude became a sought-after expert, appearing on NBC's ''Today'' show, CNN, the Fox News Channel and others.
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/217/nation/U_S_scholar_pleads_guilty_to_l:.shtml



Biographical material from CBS News on the alleged Braude:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/26/earlyshow/main546213.shtml

:silly:

Stealing from his own people. Born to an Iraqi-Jewish family, Braude studied at Yale and Princeton. Fluent in Arabic, Persian and Hebrew, he is a business consultant to governments and corporations in the Middle East.

He has written a book called "The New Iraq: Rebuilding the Country for Its People, the Middle East and the World"

For lying to custom office on entry to the U.S., Joe baby will receive a 16 month stretch. Big fucking deal!

This guy is another Ahmed Chalabi.

This man is an outrage.

Family.

Halliburton's stock price yet?

He should be forced to hold a sign outside the Green Zone, saying "I stole 4000 year old priceless artifacts from Iraqi museums", much like the woman who stole $5 worth of gas.

BECAUSE Braude had for years assisted the FBI and CIA with counterterrorism efforts, he should be put away for a few years and prevented from EVER working for a public institution for life.

Braude is scum.

DETAILS!!!! How much did he pay for them? DETAILS!!!! Maybe it will help uncover who stole all of the artifacts and how it went down!

We aren't just talking tokens here or prized possessions...we are talking ANCIENT artifacts.. cradle of civilization!

EDIT: Where are they now? Who bought them from him? Who did he get them for? How did he know when and where to go? .....Etc.......

I doubt that he got the artifacts himself. He probably paid his Iraqis friends? I googled and can't find the details but I sure someone knows. I also wonder how good of friends was he with Chalabi.

give up everyone and everything he knows as well as flying over to replace them where they go and NOT in the green zone!

IF he had access to them DURING the invasion or whoever did I WANT TO KNOW and the Iraqi people deserve the truth about who would do such a thing.

I agree it must be an inside job from the Iraqi reconstructionists!!

and the story has been covered up as far as I can tell. I wish an investigative reporter would run with it, there are just too many holes.