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I would like to commend an excellent, frank and well-researched review by Andrew Cockburn of Joseph Braude's book The New Iraq ["The Mess in Mesopotamia," Sept. 1/8]. The one thing it was short on, however, was the news that Braude was so concerned about the well-being of ordinary Iraqis, he decided to buy one of the looted ancient artworks from Baghdad and smuggle it into JFK Airport, where he was arrested and charged with smuggling stolen artifacts from an Iraqi museum.
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