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ISIS demolishing ruins to cover up for looting'
The videos of ISIS militants destroying ancient artefacts in Iraq’s museums and blowing up 3,000-year-old temples are chilling enough, but one of Iraq’s top antiquities officials is now saying the destruction is a cover for an even more sinister activity the systematic looting of Iraq’s cultural heritage. In the videos that appeared in April, militants can be seen taking sledge hammers to the iconic winged-bulls of Assyria and sawing apart floral reliefs in the palace of Ashurnasirpal II...
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Why are they given free rein to do whatever they want?
They are on a mission from God?