Office of the Administrator Coalition Provisional Authority Baghdad, Iraq 6 July, 2003 MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF, COMBINED JOINT TASK FORCE 7 FROM ADMINISTRATOR, COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY SUBJECT: Tasking Letter 3185-01 -Arch~ological Site Security ~eference: Request from th; Ministry of Culture and Request for Information email from ~utenant Colonel(b)(6) pated 25 June 2003.
I request that the Commander, Combined Joint Task Force 7, take the appropriate action to provide security for the top 40 archeological sites in country.
The following is required:
WHAT: Provide 24/7 security to top 40 archeological sites WH~RE: Ar~heological sites lf<_ted in J!)e Execl spreadsheet attachment to the ematl from Lteutenant Colonel(b)(6) fbove. ~~) WHEN: 10 July 2003.
BACKGROUND: UNESCO has reported to AMB BREMER that video tape taken over the last two days shows looters removing archeological artifacts from the archeological site at ISIN in the vicinity of grid 38RNA26127 27935.
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Subject: Re: Sites and air Dear l(b)(6) I below is all I have been able to findout so far, the second FRAGO is a very short list of sites indeed and consists of sites with confirmed and active looting plus abu salabikh which we dont know about one way or another. It does not include all the known looted sites by any means. As to sites with security apart from Babylon I don~~Xo5 of any apart from Ur (the Talil airbase). I did have an email fro ____ 6_ )about Kish though and she seemd to think that was now a camp but that the soldiers there did not know it was anything archaeological a nd thought that the ziggurats were hills (Kish has 2 zigs). Kish is not far away and I thought I would try and visit soon .
I was a bit disturbed by the reaction here to my Nejef trip the general feeling was that sites with holes in them did not mean much and nothign could be done and it was only if you actually saw people looting did that count. Peoples other suggestion was that I should either shoot the looters (which I can not do as I dont have a gun and would not be prepared to do anyway) or set up a security force (as I have never set up a police force from scratch before I regard myself as unqualified to do so) .
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Monday Bth July Air report I had finally made contact w~~ . ;x6) I the air officer for the HACC (Humanitarian Assistance comm n ons centre ) on 4th July having been told of his existence bylc:ap I showed him l{b\(6) I site list and a selection of the already~own looted sites and those with reported looting and sent him my report about the looted sites SE of Nejef on the 6th which he in turn forwarded to the MEF LNOs (Marine expeditionary force liaison officers) and I went and saw the G2 MEF LNO (ie the officer in charge of intelligence) . told me he would try to find out about the poss of heli or similar flights over these sites.
We had another meeting on the evening of Bth july whe~told me what he had found out so far. Apparently no special flights a~~g done just to look at archl sites, instead they are usually combined with another mission, this is due to a shortage of flying machines, I take this to mean there is little chance of getting up in a helicopter.f7bV6Jhad found info about a recent FRAGO (fragmentary order) which added ~ites to be watched to an original FRAGO. We don&*B217;t know what the original FRAGO was but the additions were : Isin, Para, Umma, Larsa, Umm al Agarib, Bismaya, Nippur, and Abu Salabikh. I could not be given a ocpy of the FRAGO additions report as I have no security clearance but was able to hear which sites were involvedl(b)(6)lsaid he would try to find the original FRAGO.
I don&J8217;t know what relation this is if any to the FRAGO that~l~ and Cap4(b)(6)Jwere organizing.
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> While I was busy down in Nejef yesterday some of the museum staff went > to the treasury in Hillah and it seems that money for salaries has > arrived but that it is i nsufficient to pay everyone. There is some > confusion as to the audit co th ' nes seem to think the > audit committee is/should be but the audit committee > that went to the treasury was an~who > are presumably the committe c sen the SBAH. We a so ea~t at the > payroll list has arrived at the treasury also from Baghdad. coRilh\(6\ .,...I > and I are going to the treasury tomorrow to find out about t problem > with the money being insufficient to pay everyone . eoR llb!~ Jseems to > still think we need to put in a payroll list to the~reas , ut as far > as I can see if the SBAH has already put a list into the treasury there > i s no need for this.
I did have the slight feeling that there might be a difference > of >opinion as to~position between the SBAH and the MEF (Marine > expeditionary force~(6) I has apparently seen the MEF plan for the > museum which lists as director of the Bj~~)/6nl project and did not at > the time raise anr, ~b?ection (thi s is ace to . The MEF document says >they had agreed(b 6appointment with the SBAH, but this may be news to > the SBAH.
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Subject: lungo articolo nell' Independent Un altro articolo di Robert Fisk (in prima pagina dell'inserto intemo del giomale), sempre critico rna almeno da' rilievo ai problemi coni tocali. Non ti menziona. Se Jo vedi I rivedi, salutamelo! Vedremo cosa fara' il Guardian. Stammi benej(b)(6) l .
Raiders of the lost Iraq
Under the noses of the Anglo-American occupying forces, the priceless heritage of ancient Sumeria is being pillaged to order for Western collectors. Robert Fisk reports on the desecration of the birthplace of civilisation 03 June 2003 It looks as though a B-52 has carpet-bombed the city called Mother of Scorpions. I clamber around 20ft craters and try to recognise one of the greatest cities of civilisation. But the thieves have done their work. They have broken or stolen everything. For 10 square miles, they have dug and smashed and gouged into the ancient earth, and destroyed the priceless heritage of Mesopotamia. The Sumerian palaces, the temple walls, the great pillars, oil lamps and giant pots and delicately patterned plates and dishes, all have been smashed to bits.
After three hours walking ankle-deep through the shards and fragments of dishes and handmade bricks, I found a tall, slender pot of green clay. One of our ancestors -one of my ancestors, I couldn't help thinking - had worked on this pot more than 4,000 years ago. There was a slight indent on the bottom where his hand might have slipped, a long graceful neck up which his fingers must have passed many times, and then a thin lip at the top, sufficiently narrow that the potter must have brought his two hands so close that they might have been in prayer. It was then that I realised that the top of this beautiful thing was cracked, and only when I lifted it gently in my own hands did I realise the obscenity of the looter's work. This perfect, unbroken work of art, this treasure from the people who invented writing- who gave us the first laws and the calendar and mathematics and the wheel and the great epic of Gilgamesh - had been cast aside by the looters, tossed carelessly d! own a slope of sand and stone and snapped in two.
There were other plates and vessels lying smashed around me. The thief who had been digging here was looking for early Sumerian antiquities- the collectors of America, Europe, the Middle East and Japan want the pots and statues and jewels of 5,500 years ago, not the heritage of 2000BC - and so everything above the earliest layers of civilisation had to be 6/4/2003
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Hoaxes, Hype And Humiliation By Charles Krauthanuner "It took only 48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with at least 170,000 artifacts carried away by looters."
--New York Times, Aprill3
"You'd have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find looting on this scale."
-- British archaeologist Eleanor Robson, New York Times, April 16 Well, not really. Turns out the Iraqi National Museum lost not 170,000 treasures but 33. You'd have to go back centuries, say, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find mendacity on this scale.
What happened? The source of the lie, Donny George, director general of research and study of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities, now says (Washington Post, June 9) that he originally told the media that "there were 170,000 pieces in the entire museum collection. Not 170,000 pieces stolen. No, no, no. That would be every single object we have!" Of course, George saw the story of the stolen 170,000 museum pieces go around the world and said nothing-- indeed, two weeks later, he was in London calling the looting "the crime of the century." Why? Because George and the other museum officials who wept on camera were Baath Party appointees, and the media, Western and Arab, desperate to highlight the dark side of the liberation of Iraq, bought their deceptions without an ounce of skepticism.
It played on front pages everywhere and allowed for some deeply satisfying antiwar preening. For example, a couple of nonentities on a panel no one had ever heard of (the President's Cultural Property Advisory Committee) received major media play for their ostentatious resignations over the cultural rape ofBaghdad. · Frank Rich best captured the spirit of antiwar vindication when he wrote (New York Times, April 27) that "the pillaging of the Baghdad museum has become more of a symbol of Baghdad's fall than the toppling of a less exalted artistic asset, the Saddam statue." The narcissism, the sheer snobbery of this statement, is staggering. The toppling of Saddam Hussein freed 25 million people from 30 years of torture, murder, war, starvation and impoverishment at the hands of a psychopathic family that matched Stalin for cruelty but took far more pleasure in it. For Upper West Side liberalism, this matters less than the destruction of a museum.
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Hoaxes, Hype And Humiliation Page 2 of2 Which didn't even happen! What now becomes of Rich's judgment that the destruction of the musewn
• constitutes "the naked revelation of our worst instincts at the very dawn of our grandiose project to bring democratic values to the Middle East"? Does he admit that this judgment was nothing but a naked revelation of the cheapest instincts ofthe antiwar left •• that, shamed by the jubilation of Iraqis upon their liberation, a liberation the Western left did everything it could to prevent, the left desperately sought to change the subject and taint the victory?
Hardly. The left simply moved on to another change of subject: the "hyping" ofthe weapons of mass destruction.
The inability to find the weapons is indeed troubling, but only because it means that the weapons remain unaccounted for and might be in the wrong hands. The idea that our inability to thus far find the weapons proves that the threat was phony and hyped is simply false.
If the U.S. intelligence agencies bent their data to damn Saddam Hussein, why is it that the French, Gennan and Russian intelligence services all came to the same conclusion? Why is it that every country on the Security Council, including Syria, in the unanimous Resolution 1441; declared that Hussein had failed to account for the tons of chemical and biological agents he had in 1998? If he had destroyed them all by 2002, why did he not just say so, list where and when it happened, and save his regime?
If Hussein had no chemical weapons, why did coalition forces find thousands of gas masks and atropine syringes in Iraqi army bunkers? And does anybody believe that President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Tommy Franks ordered U.S. soldiers outside Baghdad to don heavy, bulky chemical·weapons suits in scorching heat .. an encumbrance that increased their risks in conventional combat and could have jeopardized their lives .. to maintain a charade?
Everyone thought Hussein had weapons because we knew for sure he had them five years ago and there was no evidence that he had disposed of them. The weapons· hyping charge is nothing more than the Iraqi museum story Part II: A way for opponents of the war •. deeply embarrassed by the mass graves, torture chambers and grotesque palaces discovered after the war·- to change the subject and relieve themselves of the shame of having opposed the liberation of25 million people.
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Baghdad Bulletin - June 23,2003 Looting · continues at archaeological sites around Iraq Author: Micah Garen (Special to the Bulletin) According to the historian Samuel Noah Kramer, history begins at Sumer. Kramer didn't surmise it may well end there - more than two months after the fall of Baghdad, the remnants of recorded history that have survived more than 5000 years continue to be destroyed at an alarming rate.
The well-documented looting of the Iraqi National Museum has received considerable press attention. Yet the continued looting at archaeological sites, particularly the important Sumerian and Old Babylonian sites south of Diwaniya, seems to have drawn only moderate attention and even less concern from coalition forces.
These sites are the birthplace of the written word, etched out in clay bullae and on cuneiform tablets more than 5000 years ago. The invention of writing led to a flourish of literary activity in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages, and great poetic works including the Gilgamesh epic and the Descent of Ishtar.
The history of the Middle East is replete with examples of looting. At Babylon, the Turks took bricks to build the dam at AI-Hindia and the Germans made off with the Ishtar gate. After the first Second Gulf War, many important sites around Iraq were looted. More recently it has been reported that Arshad Yasim, the brother-in- law of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, had been looting archaeological sites and museums and selling the artifacts on the black market.
After the recent war, the looting reached a fevered pitch. Important sites such as Isin, Umma, Umma Akrab and Larsa were turned into swiss cheese by teams of looters, reportedly up to 200 to 300 strong at times. Returning from a recent patrol to the site of Isin where a number of looters were actively digging wha! t was left of the decimated site, one Marine described it as looking like a rape scene.
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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
SUJECT: Central Bank Vaults
1. On this date, at approximately 13:45 hours, I encountered the Joint Interagency Coordinating Unit at the Central Bank on Rasheed Street.
2. £!~~)(6) land US Customs was performing an operation under the auspices of this unit o pump the water out ofthe basement of the Central Bank with the intent to enter the vault.
3. lcP 6 tated that National Geographic had paid for the pumps and was beitfallowed to enter the vault along with them. In essence, this media group would be allowed an exclusive for buying the pumps.
4. Facts derived from a meeting at 1830 hours on 10 May 03:
a) Ambassador Limbert, at a past media event, infonned National Geographic that there would be no exclusives regarding artifacts in vaults and would not speak of the topic. Witnessed byfllJ)(6) ~USN")
b) {Mrl(b)(6 )he 0 A S"enior Advisor andl(bX6) ~other ORHA representative had no knowledge of the operation.
c) ~ b 6 aid the authority to perform this operation was granted by General Franks and Mr. Wolfowitz.
d) ~8:::6) lis not aware of the . OSDPA policy on exclusive media events.
e) CP stated National Geographic was willing to share its product.
f) . esued to have the opening of the vaults a pooled media event.
g) ORHA does not object to the draining of water from the basement, but ORHA desires to ensure its done correctly and that it will not flood again in a week. No known engineer assets were mentioned or seen.
h) At this time, it is not confirmed that the owners of the Central Bank are aware of such operation. ·
i) ~P1j(b)(6) ~as made aware the Central Bank owners have the keys or combinatiom to said vault or vaults. tr~(b)(6) rgreed he would coordinate with the Central Bank t~o}( )Jess.
j) tl> b 6 aid tips from Mr. Chalabi and some of Chalabi's sources provided them informatiOn about potential antiques in the vault.
k) It is apparent that the Joint Interagency Team know exactly where such artifacts are stored.
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m) ORHA does not oppose said operation, but want to be present when vault is opened. ·
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1. On this date at approximately 0900, writer spoke withlcP](b)(6)Jrom Joint Inter-Agency Coordination Group regarding the media accesfrh the Cen 1 Bank vaults.
2. (P~uggested the water could be drained as early as tonight, and that no guaidance fr~COM had been received regarding media access.
3. At approximately 1100 hours, the Senior Advisor for ORHA to Banking spoke with the owner of the Central Bank. This individual was unaware that JIACG was operating at its vaults.
4. At approximatew,~woo jurs, National Geographic visited the IPIC to discuss the matter of media access. (b)(6) . and her producer agreed not to enter the vault or vault area without firSt obtairung perm ssion. She stated that they were informed by JIACG that they were not allowed to enter or operate in the area.
5. At or about the same time, £9rl(b)(6) engaged in a conversion regarding access to the vaults.
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6. It was agreed that the decision of allowing access to the vaults, and who would have access, would be left to the Iraq Interim Banking and Cultural Affairs Officials, and until such time, it would be ORHA Policy that no-one be granted access to the vaults.
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SUBJ : TFI ZOl - - RESPONDING TO THE LOOTI NG OF THE IRAQI MUSEUM REF: Limbert-Larocco Telecon 4/13 / 03 1 . NIACT immediate precedence required for action outside normal working hours.
2 . This is an action message .
2. US academic and military contacts indicate they are hearing rumors that antiquities looted from the Baghdad Iraqi Museum are already appearing on European markets .
Press reports that looters also destroyed records of museum holdings suggest that there was an intention 'to move and sell the most valuable items outside Iraq .
3. Stopping the loss of these priceless objects will take a fast and concerted multi-agency and international effort.
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B. Coalition authorities should offer amnesty or reward to those returning stolen objects, or records of such objects. There should be rewards for those providing information on the whereabouts of stolen material.
C. Coalition authorities should provide security for remaining objects and for other high-value cultural sites. Of special importance are gold items stored in the National Bank building in Baghdad.
D. Coalition authorities should secure records at the Ministry of Finance, where there may be duplicates of the museum records.
E. Make an immediate contacts with Interpol, UNESCO , and governments in art market centers to ensure that any objects of Mesopotamian origin offered for sale on the international art market without proof of provenance will be considered to have been looted and must be turned over to the Iraqi authorities -- with rewards offered for items of special value or significance .
G. Countries where there is an important international art market should make public announcements similar to that in A above .
4. Following is the suggested text of a public statement that could be issued both in Iraq in the u.s.
The people of the United States value the archeological and cultural heritage of Iraq that documents over 10,000 years of the development of civilization. In recent days , the National Museum in Baghdad has been looted as well as the museum in Mosul and possibly archaeological sites and other cultural institutions . Such looting causes irretrievable loss to our understanding of history and the efforts of Iraqi and international scholars to study and gain new insight into our past.
Objects and documents taken from museums and sites are the property of the Iraqi nation under Iraqi law. They are therefore stolen property, whether found in Iraq or the United States or other nations, and anyone knowingly possessing or dealing in such objects is committing a crime both in Iraq and in the United States. such individuals may be prosecuted under Iraqi law and under the United States ' National Stolen Property Act . The Iraqi people , as well as members of the Coalition forces and others, are warned not to handle these artifacts. In particular, Americans are asked not to purchase or otherwise trade in such objects as they beloOng to the nation of Iraq and are stolen property.
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below is all I have been able to findout so far. the second FRAGO is a very short list of sites indeed and consists of sites with confirmed and active l ooting pl us abu sal abikh which we dont know about one way or another. It does not i nclude all the known looted sites by any means. As to sites with securi ty apart from Babylon I dont &\{w of apy anart from Ur (the Talil airbase) . I did have an email frornl_)_6) _about Kish though and she seemd to think that was now a camp but that the soldiers there did not know it was anything archaeological and thought that the zi ggUrats were hills (Kish has 2 zigs). Kish is not far away and I thought I would t ry and visit soon .
I was a bit disturbed by the reaction here to my Nej ef trip the general feeling was that sites with holes in them did not mean much and nothign could be done and it was only if you actually saw people looting did that count. Peoples other suggestion . was that I should either shoot the looters (which I can not do as I dont have a gun and would not be prepared to do anyway) or set up a security force (as I have never set up a police force from scratch before I regard myself as unqualified to do so) .
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Monday 8th July Air report I had finally made contact with the air officer for the HACC (Humanitarian Assistance commu ) I{J ~t~ July having been told of his existence by F~p I showed himb 6 site list and a selection of the already~own loo ed sites and those with reported looting and sent him my report about the looted sites SE of Nejef on the 6th which he in turn forwarded to the MEF LNOs (Marine expeditionary force liaison officers) 1 and ~ and saw the G2 MEF LNO (ie the officer in charge of intellige~ce) .~told me he would try to find out about the poss of heli or similar flights over these sites.
We had another meeting on the evening of 8th july when~ told me what he had found out so far. Apparently no special flights are being done just to look at arch! sites, instead they are usually combined with another mission, this is due to a shortage of flying machines~ke this to mean there i s little chance of getting up in a helicopter.l.(h}(IDlad found info about a recent FRAGO (fragmentary order) which added some sites to be watched to an original FRAGO . We don’t know what the original FRAGO was but the additions were : Isin, Fara, Umma , Larsa, Umm al Agarib, Bismaya, Nippur, and Abu Salabikh . I could not be given a ocpy of the FRAGO additions report as I have no security clearance but was able to hear which sites were involved.j(b)(6 jsaid he would try to find the original FRAGO .
I dol!&#Slcl ~( l ~ow what rel~tion this is if any to the FRAGO that gol~~~ I and ~pt_.b __ 6_ !were organiZlng .
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: l(b)(6) l I di d have the sli ght feeling that there might be a difference > of > opinion as to l<b)(S) IP between the SB.AH and the MEF (Mar i ne > expeditionary force . has apparently seen the M EF p l an for the > museum which lists (b)(6) s director of the B~on project and did not at > the t i me raise ection (this is ace to (b)(6) • The MEF document says > they had agreed (b)(S) appointment with the SBAH, ut this may be news t o > the SBAH .
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Kill looters, urges archaeologist Maev Kennedy Wednesday July 9, 2003 The Guardlan Arl American archaeologist yesterday urged her compatriots to kill the looters who are pillaging archaeological sites in Iraq.
"I would like to see some helicopters flying over these sites, and some bullets fired at the looters," Elizabeth Stone, head of archaeology at Stony Brook University in New York, said in london yesterday. "I think you have got to kill some people to stop this." Professor Stone, who directed major excavations in Iraq in the 1980s, is a speaker at an international conference on the archaeology of the region, being held this week at the British Museum.
The war and its aftermath dominated the c~mference, which was planned long in advance of the hostilities.
Prof Stone said the systematic looting of major archaeological sites and the destruction of artefacts such as broken cuneiform clay tablets, discarded by looters as worthless to collectors than intact tablets, but which could hold priceless information for archaeologists, may prove a greater disaster than the well publicised looting and destruction at the national museum in Baghdad, and the museum in Mosul.
"At least to a certain extent we know what was in the museum, but we don't know what has been taken from the sites, and that knowledge has been lost to us forever." Donny George, head of research at the museum service, said gangs of up to 300 were systematically ransacking archaeological sites, many untouched by archaeologists. The country has more than 10,000 registered sites, ranging from a few square metres to the huge sites of some of the oldest cities In the world. "They are armed, and they will shoot," . he said.
Muayad Dame~i. senior adviser at the culture ministry, said local sheikhs should be recruited and paid to protect the sites.
Dr George and the Baghdad museum director, Nawala al Mutawwali, emphatically denied that any museum staff were implicated in the thefts from the collections. Both have been the target of repeated accusations that some staff at least colluded with the looting, and then exaggerated the scale of the destruction.
Half the stores have now been searched - the work was hampered until electricity was restored only a few weeks ago - and they said 13,000 objects were definitely missing, around 10% of the entire collection, including all the oldest cylinder seals. Other thefts include small ivory and metal objects, and ceramics.
In the main galleries only 47 objects were stolen, but four important Roman statues were smashed, and their heads stolen. In the stores thousands more objects were smashed, including ceramics which are piled in fragments knee-deep on the floor of one of the stores. Some of the most precious ivories, from Nlmrud, which 7/9/2003 J
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(the shooters we had to have) l(b)(6) I ~""--~wna_~ove the two vehicles and came as a favour), an 1nterpreter of the Nejef diraa al athar. This was a somewhat confusing tri~.~T~h-e_r_e __ a_r_e ~ two different ways of getting around the landscape. 1. The military way with very detailed map and grid coordinates and planned routes 2. The Iraqi way, by knowing the land. These do not mix at all as the latter does not involve any sort of map, nor need it involve many place names . Under normal archaeological circs the latter way would work just fine, you just go where your guide takes you. However the military do not and WILL NOT do this instead they have to plan a route in advance and therefore need to know EXAC~re they are going. As a result, although I had put a map in front of~ the day before and read out lots of place names and he had confidently po1nted at a number of places that the sites were near and we had planned a route accordingly. (This route ran SE from Nej ef and then south down the west bank of the Euphrates. ) The places named byj(b)(6) las ‘near&i8217; the sites were in general within 30 km and on the other siqe of ~he river. At the first point where the military route diverged froml(b)(S) U8217;s . route and he said so, the military insisted on going the route that had been planned for security reasons i.e.
they had told Ops they were going that way and therefore that was the way they had to go . So we did the route to the furthest point wi thout encounteri ng any looted archaeological sites at a l l (not surprising as we were on the wrong side of the Euphrates) . It was only on the way back having crossed~ver at ash Shenafiyah that we finally stumbled over somewhere that~recognized and then were able to find the areas he was talking about. None of these were very obvious tell sites, all were very low lying . In fact, for the most part, if it were no t for the busy looters and l arge holes it would be possibl~ to a: straight past such sites without noticing them at all. Also although~b )( 6 ) J glive all the sites names, I got the impression that these were very general area designations rather than be ing the name of that exact part of the landscape .
So having crossed the Euphrates from west to east at Shenafiyeh and trave l ed north east for a time and then taken a left and traveled NW past the left turn to Ghammas, heading generally NE, roughly paral lel with the Euphrates, we encountered an area on the left side of the road where numerous people were busy with shovels and there was a l so a stationary bulld~bSr jhere were also a few people digging on the right side of the road.! )( > called this area “al Assaya” (38 RMA 60897 15862).
The major in charge of our convoy was not keen to have us get out of the vehicle so we made two slow passes and took photos from inside the vehicle with the windows closed . (I have to say I was using a videocarnera that also does stills, but t hey are very poor quali t y and what wi t h t hat and the moving vehicle, I am not sure that they are good enough to persuade people that what they depict is actual looting in progress. Also it was not possible to zoom in close enough and some of the figures in the pictures are rather remote.) We then continued NE up the east side of the Euphrates and then took a left turn and traveled SW towards the Euphrates and took another left off the 1
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After ‘Umm Kheshem’ we made our way back to the zifit and took a left turn onto it and crossed the Euphrates to the west bank and turned NW and traveled through Abu Skrayr towards Nejef. It was on the left of this road at 38RMA 48117 32752 that we stopped at another area of extensive pitting and some clear use of a bulldozer. Again there was broken pottery and even one complete jar. One pit has a row of la~ge stones that could have been the remains of a wall. The general looters approach is to dig a small circular pit about a foot across, then if anything of interest is found this is then expanded into something roughly the size of a grave. So you end up with lots of small circular pits and the occasional larger rectangular one . Som e of the latter are quite l arge . Al l of these s i tes were Sasanian cemeteri es according to our guide. I t may be that some of the areas were not only cemeteries and the tim . e span may be a little wider, but I think post-Helleni sti c/pre- Islarnic is a pr etty good guess, not that there was a much diagnostic material. There was very little bone material around, certainl y nothing that was defini tely human, but possibly the rather sandy soil in these areas does not preserve bone well.
I know~a (b)(6) has a l ready to see the officer in charge in that area a ol ( siders any patrolling the buianess of the l oca po ~c . (b)(6) (the regional coordinator ie th~ in CPA hea rrlandl also sai d when e had discussed looti ng with Eol ( )( l 6 thatl(b)(6) _had said he was trying to get the police to deal with 1.t.
could not tell you if the gov of Nejef has many, or indeed any, police at the moment.
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One last problem.~wanted me to visit the diraa;museurn in Kufa on the way . The mil i tary~qual l y insistent that we do no such thing. We had been t old to stay out of the city of Ne'ef i ncludin Kufa, as it is regarded as a slightly dicey area since (b)(6) sacked the gove rnor and arrested hi m for corruption . I am sur it was a aux pas not to lr; s~ t but there was nothing I could do about it. I was a l so unable to te l l ~{b _>_<_> when I would be ab l e to make such a visi t as I can not be sure of getti ng that many vehi cles or people together again.
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R'e: looted sites SE of Nejef j(b)(6)l Dear~ Thanks for your l atest.
It remi nds me that a~as Heartland of Cities and Uruk Countrysi de I should have sent you ~maps and catalogue for Kish (though I don't i magine i t reaches those Nejef area sites), I w i ll try and get a copy to someone going back to Baghda~eek, if there is anyone, and mail a copy too (let me know if the~tuff arrives).
I am sorry to see mention of the late Majid al-Hadithi, as I suspect this is Abdul-Mejid al-Hadithi who was our rep at Abs a while ago. He was certainly alive last August, although he had lost a lot of teeth, and he had a lot of interesting archaeological data. I hope he wasn't a casualty of the fighting.
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Notes from Meeting with!COL ~USMC doing investigation into the looting of (9 \ ~) the Iraq Museum, 05 Mar L__j ~w(b)(6) I I arnve<t'22 April at the request of General Franks to begin my investigation.
Initial reports of 127,000 artifacts missing may be overstated. The point is RECOVERY NOT Prosecution. There is not subpoena power, no warrants, no etc. Recovery only.
The methodology:
a. Identify what is missing b. Where are the items that are not missing.
c. Establish an Amnesty Program d. Develop confidential sources.
All have been successful to varying degrees.
Assumptions;
1. If staff tells us a piece was here before the battle, we assume it is was here.
There are the offices, the Galleries, the Restoration room, and magazines (storage vaults), and vaults within the Central Bank. Think of this as a University with many colleges, many of who do not talk to each other.
2. There is no photographic evidence of what was here before the war. We assume we will receive a complete and accurate inventory.
Gallery. As of now, they can confirm 38 significant pieces missing. There is much disagreement among the senior staff. Head of the Golden Harp was a copy that was stolen. The Vase of Warca was not on the floor in the after the BBC visit in November.
22 pieces have been damages, 11 of 22 in shards. 17 display cases damaged out of the hundreds in the building.
Restoration Room. Fake Golden Harp taken to the Restoration Room to restore and hide is on the CLEARED half of the room. Clearing carefully and creating an Amnesty Box for the employees. Clearing the room is intentionally slow to preserve the actual process and permit the employees to return more.l(b)(S) lthe #1 focus in the Restoration Room. 10 Pieces potentially missing.
Bomb Shelter. A bunch of connected boxes. The possessors will not turn over to · the Baathi, waiting for a democratic government. They do not trust the museum staff.
39,453 items in the Bomb shelter. Exclusively manuscripts and scrolls. In a p~ religious location (N331739.73/N0441937.49). Includes pre-Islamic texts also ~ rue Manuscrjnt OIJV i s~ bad dude Frequently arouses the ire of the local communitY.
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Central Bank. 15-20 Boxes. Five refrigerator sized boxes and 15 footlocker sized boxes. The vaults themselves are intact. No one in the museum knows what was put in ~~II.Y.lJ~efore 1991 . Another assumption: the inventory of the vaults is truel90L
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(b )(S ) eavy duty Ba'ath person ~t first claimed he could not find the vaults, then he ocated them. Cannot find the keys to the vaults and cannot find the receipts for what is in the vaults.
Magazines (storage vaults). Five total, 3 old and 2 new. Two of the old magazines are two levels with an internal stairway. Entry into one magazine is entry into both. Lots of statues and shards, vessels etc. A first floor door is open, no signs of
forced entry, and the keys are gone. On the second floor a slit window is broken, there are RPG pieces, AK-47 rounds, etc. Military detritus. The window is broken from the inside outwards. The only explanation is a dude got the keys, broke out the window, shot from the windows and ran with the keys when Coalition troops fired back. Very little is taken from this magazine and confirms the story that US Forces took fire from both sides of the street.
Two more magazines with two room~ apiece for a total of four rooms. Three of four rooms are pristine and untouched. The one looted room is pristine except for a far right comer wherein several hundred cardboard boxes the size of ski boot boxes are empty and untouched. Additionally there are 90 plastic boxes filled with trays that were filled with amulets, seals, and pendants. Approximately 5,000 pieces, all very small and pilferable. able individually, but significant overall.
JCo (bl(Sl pinion. Impossible to find unless you knew exactly where to look. 16rust !lave a mtimate knowledge. Also worth noting the museum staff is different from the storage magazine staff. They told Dr. Chalabi about the theft. ~nsert discussion about west as geometry and the Islamic world as algebraic.) 0 (b)(S ) .___..,..........._,.,....____.
needs the INC people who bought or captured the two plastic shelves o 1ny an IQUJ 1es.
Were these most worth stealing? They were the easiest, most intact, easily pilferable stuff in the museum. Also worth noting is that none of these items are in their correct envelopes. Most envelopes still on the floor. The museum was not pillaged to the degree initially re.e:orted hi · ot the Elgin Marbles, but close. The final numbers will take months, butlQ_O (b)(S l xpects to be home next Monday (12 ~ will stay behind. e press overstated the initial report, plus a little~ hyperbole.
e do no{ know what t~e Jordanians have picked~. T,he Natjon:-1 Geographic is here to photo vault opening ~b)(S) _Pustoms, ~lrb)(s) JUSMC CENTCOM.
Now what? Smuggling 1 01 .... wait for the stuff to move. Create a "black list" of stuff to monitor movement.
Am f£2 (b)(S) genuinely sincere, (b)(S ) and issues we need to be aware of?
san outsider aood self promoter.l""'(b"""')(s,.,....) --.
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We have not adopted an adversarial tone. 3 levels of stuff. Stolen before 91 .
Stolen between 91 and the beginning of looting, and stuff looted.
Specifically mentioned INTERPOL not part of investigation.
How to manage expectations.
A. The goal of the military action was liberate, not occupy. Therefore the goal of this program is recovery not retribution.
B. Once the physical presence is gone from the library, the effort is not over.
Amb Limbert. How can we help the process?
~OL I(b)(6l _JWe do not need a new investigation, but it should be overseen by DoTNOT FBI. If ffit in country, needs adult supervision. It needs to be a USG investigation controlled from outside the FBI. The ultimate prosecution will be the Iraq people in Iraqi Courts. The best analogy of what they doing is a grand jury.
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Let me thank you and your staff for all the help during my visit. The helicopter trip was extremely important in gauging the level of damage that is going on at archaeological . sites. I assume that actions are being taken to stop the illegal excavations and trade, and I hope that this will happen fast. Every day of digging means the loss of thousands of artifacts and their original context. By looting archaeological sites, the people of Iraq are destroying not only the past but also the future, since archaeology will be a major source of revenue through tourism for centuries to come. They are also denying themselves the employment that archaeological expeditions would give them, if the sites in their areas are / not destroyed. When we stopped at !sin, the people seemed unaware that tooting was forbidden in the new situation. Media announcements stating that it is forbidden and a statement that people can be arrested for it would have some effect. But the Antiquities department has to get its people back to work not only in Baghdad, but also in the regional offices, on sites, etc. Guards have to be reestablished and paid. I also hope that something can be done to shut down the market in anti uities in the town of Rifai, nortlf..¢., _.- Nasiriyah. Key to all this is" m•t a pa ro ing of sites, along with the appearance of~ l<bHSl !or other · · ny with Coalition forces. If you could arrange another helicopter tour fa (b)(Sl it would be very useful.
~day I had a phone cal rom Washington, froml<b)(S) bndl(b)(S) I ~who are ORHA designate§.. for the Antiqujties organization. They say that they still need an invitation from . dRHA-Baghdad to come. These two individuals, as former long- term employees of the Oepartmgj instrument~etting the Museum and the reSt of t~e Departm~~t .functioning. (b)(S l _ wli'oSeTamity Is a maJor one in Baglida_ d. has continued to return to· Iraq once or 1ce a year and she has cooperated Wtth the Department in research on collections, in publication, etc.l<bl{S) Jwas one of the premier archaeologists until he left for the U.S. in the 1990s. Both are highly respected and would .
have the confidence of the present staff. WithoutJb.eir presence, I very much doubt that the inventory of lost items and the cleaning up of the museum part of the building will be do · · ear. And I fear that even if they are here, progress will be very ~ow as long as (b)(S) s in charge of the Museum. She is in a state of collapse and I would advise a me tea eave of absence, with pay. I also think that her talents as· an administrator are far less than her gifts as a reader of ancient cuneiform texts, so she might better be returned to that section of the department.
Having observed the situation for two weeks, I have revised my earlier judgment that it would be best to keep much of the administration as it is for the interim. I am convin~
(b)(S) much real ro ress will be ma~e in the department as a whole as long as~ L....,_---:-:-:-:---' remams ead of the organization. He is just too indecisive, lacks leadership qualities, and does not have the confidence of his staff. I know that he reall~ wants to return to teaching, which he does well. I would urge thatl<bl(6l J the most effective man in the organization1be made at least Interim President of the State Board of Antiquities. He has the respect and confidence of the foreign archaeologists and can put a reasoned and reasonable face on the department in a difficult transition. There may be
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~;::_.'_t~ . Si;.1f ~~ My visit to Iraq ~ { I ' ,. . ,. • ~ :1 ., • ~ Revised Gazetteer .xis 25K Dear General Kern:
I want to thank you for seeing me on my last day in Iraq. I thought I should put in writing some general appreciation of the situation as I saw it. The conditions in the Iraq National Museum improved each day I was there. The losses of objects were bad, but not as bad as they could have been. It looks as if there will be thousands of objects missing, but not tens of thousands. The official count, as of the 23rd, was just over 1.000 objects definitely missing. That number came from the inventory that is being carried out. Most of the more Important items, that had been on public display, came through untouched, since they were in secure storage. The night before I left Baghdad, the US Customs men carried out a a sting operation in Baghdad and recovered about 200 items, which were all from museum storage. All had museum numbers on them. I don't know if they were from within the 1000 items already known to be definitely missing.
The situation within the structure of the Department is much as I had outlined in messages to various contacts in and out of the military.
It is clear that the most effective person l~ ( b )( G ) I and he should be running the organization. Everyone else seems to be in shock or is unable to make decisions to get things moving back to normal. The advisors who have been named by the British and US sides, who should have been in there already, are still sitting in London and Washington, waiting for an invitation from ORHAi which seems not to be forthcoming. The new philosophy seems to be that the Iraqis will do everything themselves. The situation In the museums is just so bad that there is an absolute need to have expert advice and assistance, especially from conservators. Any idea that a few weeks training for Iraqis will equip them to do the necessary conservation is ludicrous. A museum anywhere, including the US or Europe, that had suffered what the Iraq museums in Baghdad and Mosul have experienced would be calling in expert assistance. Until the advisors and conservators get there and start getting the laboratories back in operation and begin repairing damaged objects, not much will get done. And the longer there is no conservation, the longer it will be before the Customs and FBI men can declare their job finished. In order to speed up the inventory of objects, I got thP N;:!tinn;:!l (.;pnnr"'nhic- tn rlnni"tP t::mnn tn hirP hii"-P"- tn hrinn frnm
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My colleagues l(b)(S) l(who works at the Institune of Arrhaeollgy in England, ~d formerly the British School of Archaeology in Iraq) and!b)(S) _(also an b ( ~ ) archaeologi st and now a curator at the Br i t i sh Museum) (both are with the Ministry of Culture at CPA) have spoken with J <b)(6) I, Keeper of Ancient and Near East studies at the BM (he is also on the Council of the British School of Archaeology). He is currently in Baghdad with some conservation colleagues and a channel 4 TV crew. They would greatly like to meet you to discuss the situation at the archaeological sites and other cultural areas in the region you have responsibility for. Unfortunately due to the tight schedul e t he BM/C4 team are on they are unable to stay overnight in Babylon on Wednesday. They are traveling down to arrive at around llam and wi l l visit the Babylon M useum and the site to carry out an assessment of the looting and the conservation needs. They would be happy to meet you in the late afternoon if this is feasible.
l(b)(S) lwould also be able to stay overni ght if this proved necessary. She wou l d t hough need transport back to Baghdad on Thursday .
~o(~ J e )(S) IThuraya number isi:S) ~ ~) If you have any ~roblems contacting her please let me know and I wi l l try and get her to get a message to!b)(6) I Due to the need to finalise budgets by the weekend I am unable to j oin J (b)(6) I andl(b)(S) They w i ll though report back to the Ambassador and myself so that we can see how best we can support you.
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Se~t • T:nrsday: .Ju ne 12 2003 11:25 AM ~~ l ( b )( S) _ Subject: CPA -South : Establishment of Cultural 5 Pillar _ I (Mi nistry of Culture) l(b)(6) Thank you so much for your message. I think i t is an excellent idea that we meet. My preference would be to do so here in Babylon, not for my own convenience, but in order that you could meetJ(b)(6) l who will become Regional Coordinator at the end of the month . You wil l also find the atmosphere here somewhat more refined than that in the Republican Palace!
I need hardly emphasise the archaeological signi ficance of this area, nor our commitment to preserving it (we have just injected $10k into the museum at Babylon to help redress the damage done by looters). Our Cultural Affairs head would have the lead in identifying the extent of the problem, proposing solutions and monitoring progress to meeting the reuirement. A draft set of ToR is attached, but this is very much a working document and can be amended as needs be.
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Subject: Directorate Account l(b)(6) :1 Tue, Jun 3, 2003 7:05 pm Re: Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq (&) ) Dear ~ . Col.~ Thank you very much f or your message and for informing me of your intention to appoint somebody in charge of cultural affairs for the Nejev-I<erbala-Babylon area.
The looting of sites in this area and the destruction of museums is very tragic and I am delighted to learn of your efforts to do somethi ng about it. It goes without saying that we shall do all we can to help . The British Museum is, however, already co-ordinating a large British effort (working with the DCMS and the FCO) to help wi th cultural reconstruction in Iraq, under the overall aegis of CPA.
We are in the process of fielding a UK archaeological team in Iraq, and the BM is also serving as the clearing- house for i nternational he lp in consultation·with UNESCO .
I think that the best way forward would be for you to contact and work with the cultural section of CPA, currently headed by the Itali an, Ambassador Cordone .
He has overall responsibility for all cultural and educational matters which incl udes the protection of archaeological sites and museums, and he has been very helpful in using his authority to advance our efforts.
We have been in frequent contact with him and I discussed issues of the sort you raised when I saw him in Baghdad a fortnight ago. At present he is supported b a representative from the Department of Culture Media and S or , l(b)(6) They can be contacted by email thr (b)(6) e hope they be joined at thj end of thi s week b (b)(6) a curator in his Museum, andl(b)(S) from Cambridge U niversity, representing the British School of Archaeology in I raq. She has great knowledge of archaeologi cal sites. Both are good Arabists. Then a team of curators and conservators from the British Museum headed by l(b)(S) I intends to arrive i n Baghdad on 13th June and wi l l stay in Iraq for two weeks . I will askl(b)(6) Ito get in touch with you when he arrives and I know he will want to meet you in Babylon, and discuss matters further. He hopes to be i n Babylon on 18th June . In the meantime, I suggest that you make contact wit ~ ~)(~ I and explain to him what you are proposing to do. If there is anything more that I can do to help before l(b)(6) !visit, please let me know. This is important work.
With best wishes,
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Subject: FW: Wof'1( in Babylon '---------~ _.,::::---original Message----· rom: Ryszard Krystosik [mal~ (b)(S) nt: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:44 PM ti : o n yon l(b )(6) Project Director Babylon Archaeological Project Camp Babylon Dear Sires, I came down to Iraq following a kind invitation byl(b)(S ) l ofthe CPA SC, to carry on an archaeological research in Babylon in closest possible cooperation with Iraqi Archaeologists "'\.
representing the State Board · · · and Heritage. { .b~l During a visit paid toiMrs. (b)(S l fthe CPA SC today, I was assured that the Chairmen ofthe ~ State Board has acceptedThe idea of join olish-lraqi work in Babylon. ConsequentJy, I plan to come to Baghdad at the beginning of the next week or even earlier, if possible (depending on the transport opportunities here in Babylon) to apply for a neccesary permit to start a worlc. I think, nevertheless, that before my visit to the State Board I should get in touch with person from your office, who has been overseeing this matter, and that the visit in the State Board of Antiquities should be paid by this person and myself together. (b)(6) lb) II ~ It would be mostly welcomed if the personhire~s ~o~ns~I!!:!·b~le~c~o:!!!n~ta~c~ts~m~ . ~e~a.!.="""i"'"-:----:-o------;:r \! ~ send a message to Amb. Ryszard K.rystosik a (b)(S) from whose computer am sending this letter as soon as possible.
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FW: Arrival of Polish Ar~~aelolg!sts for _ B~byton MOC, For your information.
~ the individuals that I forwarded your email to are the new senior advisor, Amb Mario Bondioli Osio (Amb Cordone has departed) ICb\(6\ I his new deputy (and arche gist) as well as our military person who watches out over SBAH, ~jor l (b)(6) I (b)(6) Regards, l<b)(6) I (~I\ ~t4 for Babylon Dear Ambassador Cordone et al., l<b)(S) I. the Polish project director for the upcoming Babylon excavations, has arrived in al-Hilla. He is currently accompanied by one other archaeologist and 5 more are due to arrive on October 20.
He would like to meet with the SBAH as soon as possible to obtain written permission to conduct the dig, and to discuss the project with Iraqi experts. I believe he'll be in touch with you himself in the next day or two when he gets access to email.
Please let us know when i t would be possible for him to come up and meet with you at CPA and with the SBAH .
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Subject: Memo: Babylon Archaeological Project TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Memo: Background and Perspectives of the Babylon Archaeological Project A proposition to carry out archaeological projects consisting of excavations at three sites located in the SC region of Iraq was launched by Mr l< bH S l I Director of the CPA SC, and adressed to ambasa~or Bratkiewicz, the secretary . of the Task. Team Jor Irao ofthj M_inis~{b)(~foreift Affairs, Repubhc ! of Poland. In subsequent correspondence wi (b)(S) Dtrect tated that the CPA will run the project with a budget up to 100.000 US dollars which will be spent on the wages for Iraqi workers, aquisition of tools and technical equipment, accomodations and provisions for the Polish members of the team(letter of September 4). He has also stated that a laboratory space for the needs of the mission will be prepared within the Babylon Museum. In the same letter Directo~ ( b )( S ) I ormed me that the expenses of the Polish members of the team (travel costs, wages and insurance) could not be covered by the CPA. The list of the sites under investigation was limited to Babylon only, for security reasons.
The Polish side insisted on some changes in the original offer ofDirectorl< b l<6> !The most important one was to include into the project a survey of damages which the site of Babylon suffered during and after the war, when a military camp has been created in its cel)tral part along with preservation activities, should they tum out to be necessary. The second important issue was including Iraqi archaeologists into the project as an equal partner. To stress these two improvements, the Project has been dubbed "Babylon Archaeological Project" , avoiding usage of words 1! ike "excavations", as from the start it was intended to include other form of activities at the site, and ''Polish", as it was considered an international project to be carried out jointly by Polish and Iraqi sciencists. The main idea behind the project was to combine experience of Iraqi archaeologists with up-to-date documentation standards provided by the Polish side of the project to benefit fully from the technical means provided by the CPA. The concern of both CPA and Polish :MFA was to start a civilian project which, besides allowing Iraqi collegues to return to the field work which had stopped stopped abruptly in Spring 2003, will provide local menpower with the much needed employment opportunities for at least 80 people.
The letter of Directorl< b)(S ) lquoted afforehand was grounds to apply for a financial support from the Polish MFA, to cover the expences of Polish members of the mission to Iraq which could not be paid by the CPA. This support was granted and I have been sent to Iraq via Kuweit accompanied by one of the mission members on October 9, and joined by the other members of the mission in Babylon on October 30.
On arrival to Babylon on October 14, I was assured by the local authorities of the SBOAH that the site had survived the war without any damage whatsoever. Therefore, when I outlined the research programme ofthe BAP in a letter to Late Dr. Rabia al-Qaisi, the Chairman of the SBOAH, on October 18, the documentation and preservation work was not included in it. This programme was approved by Dr. AI-Qaisi. Consequently, five Iraqi archaeologist were appointed to join the project and workers recruited, though the work in the field did not start, because, on one hand, military authorities requested time to perform a security check on Iraqi colleagues and workers a! nd, on the other, CPA SC did not provided promised tools and equipment.
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Tour of the MEF m<Xlifications at camp Babylon made 25th July 03 and added to on July The majority of the areas used by the Marine camp have utilized areas that had already been developed with buildings and roads etc. There are also some very flat areas that · have been used for equipment, tents etc. In a few areas earth moving has taken place or.
heavy machinery and trucks have been driven across areas of the mound unprotected by' paved roads nor part of existing tracks.
Trash dumps or birms There are two of these. Trash dumps are rectangular areas with three bulldozed ridges:
This shelters a central area in which rubbish is burnt. When the dump goes out of use the ridges are collapsed on top of the rubbish.
The southern one is south of the southern entry point to the west of the road and close to the east bank of the river and has been closed. It is likely that this dump being very close to the river that the upper few feet of soil are probably river silt and so it is unlikely that this dump will have clffected any actual archaeological deposits.
The northern dump is still in use. The latter is out of the North ECP north of the Northern lake attached to the canal and to the east of the track rurming north along the river. It was in this area that on July 291 h we discovered a 40ft x 1Oft x 9-10 ft deep pit had been dug for the burning of rubbish (and this pit must have been dug after the 25th July when this area was first visited). The upper 5 ft of this pit had cut only river silt/agricultural soil but the lower 4 ft or so had cut archaeological deposits and much potte~v:as visible once the fire in the pit had abated. A visit was made to the camp commandal_l~TC l < b ){6) [on this matter. He had ordered the digging of this pit to try to keep children away from the burning rubbish as they had been scavenging through it.
l<b){6) lwas very disturbed by the digging of this pit which was reported to the Babylon museum by a local man who took some of the pieces of archaeological objects from the pit to the museum.l<bH6> l feels that such digging will only encourage local people to dig holes as well. It seems rather disappointing after our efforts at co-ordination with the MEF with regard to minimizing the archaeological impact of activities at camp ..
Babylon. Given that in this particular area archaeological deposits seem to be around 4 or ·-~- 5 feet deep it seems likely that the bulldozed ridges of the binn will not have disturbed · these to any great extent.
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This is no longer in use but was situated on the west bank of the river opposite the Saddam Palace. To prepare the runway it was skimmed to remove topsoil and then compacted. Like other areas treated in this way it would then have been watered daily to keep down the dust. It seems possible that any archaeological deposits this close to the river probably lie under a few feet or more of river silt deposited by occasional flooding.
Tanker and truck parks, graveled tracks etc.
The riverside area north of the Saddam palace mound has been used as a truck and car park as well as the site of various portakabins. The areas here were very flat already so they were just graveled, they would not have needed skimming apparently. Further noJ1h
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building of the Saddam Palace. The track at the base and to the west of the Saddam ·-- mound has been 'prepped' (ie. Skimmed, earth dumped, watered, compacted) and graveled. It is regularly watered to keep the dust down.
Gravel has been added to an area west of the tarmac ked car park that is immediately w~t _ of the Greek amphitheatre. Presumably this area was prepped also. A couple of fuel -
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tankers are parked on this area close to the fence with the car park. An extension of this .::·, .-.<;.--~ · graveled area was observed in progress on 17m July up to the fence of the Hammurabi , _); : ~, - .-~ - ::-. : _ __ museum and was sufficiently al~g with bulldozing, steamrollering to co1:11pact the --; _:; ~: ~~- , ---7 earth etc. thaj(b)(6l land I mtervened and asked the camp commandanti:LTC __ __ , ( :::.--,_:;, .;-~ :t, __ l( b)(6) ~o stop the work and not to use the area as a truck park as originalfy-mtended: - -~-
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An area ii'orth of this was starting to be used to store containers from trucks and these· · - · · · have now been moved to the paved car park at the east entrance to the site. In the area west of the amphitheatre where archaeological deposits are right at the surface the - trucking of heavy machinery is likely to cause considerable damage. On the 25th July a 'ditch witch' was observed in use in this area, cutting into an area of mound to lay a cable. The driver was asked to desist and agreed, his work does not seem to have authorized by!Jq(b)(6) I
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To the north west of the amphitheatre are two fuel bladders surrOtmded by earth birms (ridges). It is not entirely clear where the earth for these came from, whether it was - trucked in from outside the camp or the result of earth moving within the camp. Also in this area is a possible Iraqi army bunker position the construction of which is different to the Coalition bunkers.
Helicopter landing zones
It is in these areas that some of the most extensive surface bulldozing took place. The northern landing zone or LZ is NW of the amphitheatre, east of the processional way and west of one of the lakes. One part of this LZ is an already tarmac ked area, this was then - extended by bulldozing areas of the mounds flat and compacting them etc. One of these areas was described as clumpy or lumpy. I do not know if these were the remains of excavated mud brick walls that were eroding or the irregular surface of unexcavated mounds, either way the surface was bulldozed flat. It seems likely !qat this will have damaged archaeological deposits as they are generally close to the surface in this part of the site.
The southern landing zone near the southern ECP (entry check point) to the west of the road was apparently mostly gardens with ridges and ditches for irrigation like the remaining area immediately north of it. These ridges were bulldozed flat, red earth · · dumped and compacted and watered. It is then watered each day. A number of bunkers - .
were dug into this area especially on its northern and western sides. The sections in all of these were scrutinized and none had any archaeological deposits in them. All seem to be agricultural soil/river silt. Some ofthe.bunkers utilized the concrete bllllker sections which reduce greatly the amount of digging that is done. In other areas of the site, concrete above ground bunkers are the norm.
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I understand from_in Bremer's office that the money for 1 (b)(6) J the ~qr--------------p~ repairs to the Babylon Museum was promi sed by Ambassador Bremer himself. I assume he has a fund for proj ects. If yoO' need to f ind out where exactly the money is coming from you should speak to~b )( 6 ) I It would be useful if you coul d provide an update on the work of the museum repai rs as the ambassadors office has asked for it in advance of the Nimrud Treasures viewing. If you could get something to me by close Monday that would be great .
Hope you enj oy the hel icopter flights.
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Cu l ture ) ;j~ ( b _ >< _6 > ________ J (CIV UK M i nistry of Culture) Subj ect: RE : report dear l<b)(S) I Thanks for your reply, as I understand it the eiloyee list is the whole of Babi 1 governorate but I have emi a l ed ~R l(b)(6) to make sure this is the case .
you say that may and june salaries wil l be paid soon but nothing about the mechanism for thi s. The museum staff here have an appoi ntment at the t reasury (partof the army) in Hillah on wed to register but I am unc l ear whether they will collect money at thi s point too (i n fact the people organi sing t h is seem to think di fferent things , all I can do is go a l ong and find out what ha:pens I thi nk ) . The muesum staff also seem to thi nk thatj(b)(6) ~ent to Baghdad today for something rel ated to pay but whether th1s 1aack pay for may june or whether he "ust went to ra1se concerns about pay no-one seemed to know, and f]2pt (b)(6) organising t he treasury trip on wed did not know he had gone.1£pR b ems to thi nk the back pay and current pay are seperate issues, ap (b)(6) seems to think it is a l l the same thi ng and wi ll be resolved on ea .
I dont think the employees are new exactly just that the Marines decided i n the short term to employ only those people who they regarded as necessary for the museum so this was onl art of the payroll that existed under Saddam . They have told (b)(6) that it is up to her who she employs in fut ure and she i s keen to emp oy all those poepl e who were employed under Saddam. I am therefore unclear whether these count as new employees or not .
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the (~ ~~~~~~~ ~ should compile a list of the workforce and get it approve y AmOas~ador Cordone and the DG of Administration and Accounts and then submit the information to the Ministry of Financ::e.
(Q\ am wondering how t ~te'rl; cab~~td 'g this, do they ask each parts of the ministry to do it, ie do they ask \ the SBAH for a list of SB~H employees?? and in tum how do the SBAH do it ? by asking each branch office in ; each governorate for a list ?? whose job is it to make up the list in each gov ?
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th~/ cabinet~ould then liaise with the local branch .of the Treasury which has d~ :C e· gated authority to issue an authori zation to withdraw funds to pay salaries.
Q OK so this is where the treasury in Hillah comes in, so any_ payroli lls~l;las to come from the interim cultural cabinet in Baghdad to the treasury in Hillah ? is that correct ?? so ~e treasury in Hillah is unikely to take any notice of a payroll list that has come from some other source than the cultural cabinet ?? or if they did take any notice of a payroll list from another source than the cultural cabinet then this would not be correct procedure, is that right?
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a . identify the m inistry w hich each workforce belongs to;
Q This seems to be the easy bit, yes the SBAH employees are part of the min of cult b . compile a payro ll f or each w o rkforce including t otal number of workers and distribution among salary grades .
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c . nominate one main audit committee for each ministry in the governate, i ncluding names, ID names and .copies of their s i gnatures, which wi ll pick up s alari es from the bank for all the workforces of the ministry in the Governate and di stribute them at the pay s i te to the audit committees for the other workforces.
~o nominates this audit committee ?? the cultural cabinet ?? the SBAH ?? the min of cult ?? I thlnkfapt ~was trying to registe~ ( b )( 6 ) ltnd the accountan~ the audit committee with the treasury here in Hilhih but perhaps it is not up to him ?
H ope this makes sense .
I t is not up tol(b)(6) lwhom she empl oys in the future. If these are Ministry empl oyees it i s currently up to the Ministry in Baghdad . [This i s part of a much bigger i ssue which was rai sed at the daily civil admin meeting by Ambassador Raphel and guidance will be sent out to the governates shortly) .
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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:50:52 +0400 Subject: RE: report ~ I understand that the salaries process is as follows:
- the interim cabinet should compile a list of the workforce and get it approved by Ambassador Cordone and the DG of Administration and Accounts and then submit the information to the Ministry of Finance.
- the cabinet should then liaise with the local branch of the Treasury which has delegated authority to issue an authorization to withdraw funds to pay salaries.
- In the governates, preparing payroll data will involve the following steps:
a. identify the ministry which each workforce belongs to;
b. compile a payroll for each workforce including total number of workers and distribution among salary grades.
c. nominate one main audit committee for each ministry in the governate, including names, ID names and copies of their signatures. which will pick up salaries from the bank for all the workforces of the ministry in the Governate and distribute them at the pay site to the audit committees for the other workforces. · Hope this makes sense.
It is not up to l(b)(6) I whom she employs in the future. If these are Ministry employees it is currently up to the Ministry in Baghdad . [This is part of a much bigger issue which was raised at the daily civil admin meeting by Ambassador Raphe! and guidance will be sent out to the governates shortly].
I understand fro~(b )( S) l in Bremer's off ice that the money for the repairs to the Ba~on Museum was promised by Ambassador Bremer himself. I assume he has a fund for projects. If yo\1 need to find out where exactly the money is coming from you should speak to l(b)(6) I It would be useful if you could provide an update on the work of the museum repairs as the ambassadors office has asked for it in advance of the Nimrud I I I I I L . j(b)(6) I https:/ /webmatl.hermes.cam.ac. uk/sessio1 I . ""--~L~~-.tx;-r>--,J.---, _ --.Jti~-t>-~tt(= = W - . - , ~- . ,............ __J ..E.ft.\!..li N, -.-~ If-<-,::. I 6/29/2003 __ _
Hermes Webmail service: Message Display Page2 of4 Treasures viewing. If you could get something to me by close Monday that would be great.
Hope you enjoy the helicopter flights .
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(CIV UK Ministry of Culture) Subject: RE: report dear~ Thanks for your reply, as I understand i~ the emqloyee list is the whole of Babil governorate but I have emialed ~R t(b)(6) _lto make su. re this is the case.
you say that may and june salaries will be paid soon but nothing about the mechanism for this . The museum staff here have an appointment at the treasury (partof the army) in Hillah on wed to register but I am unclear whether they will collect money at this point too (in fact the people organising this seem to think different things, a l l I can do is go along and f~~ nd out w:at ha:qens I think) . The muesum staff also seem to think that ~~b}(6) ~ _jwent to Baghdad today for something related to pay but w ether th s 1s ack pay for may june or whether h ' ust went to rai se concerns about pay no -one seemed to know, and~pt b 6 anising the treasury trip on wed did not know he had gone . ~ (b)(6) ems to think the b~ck pay and current pay are seperate issues, ~p (b)(6) seems to think it is all the same thing and will be resolved on wed.
I dont think the empl oyees are new exactly just that the Marines decided in the short term to employ only those people who they regarded as necessary for the museum so this was only lart of the payroll that existed under Saddam. They have told l(b}(6) that it is up to her who she employs in future and she is keen to employ all those poeple who were employed under Saddam. I am therefore unclear whether these count ae new employees or not.
I am assuming that the repairs to the Babylon museum are coming out of some other pot of money that south central/CPA heartland have down here. I will know more when I can speak toJ(b)(6) lwho has been dealing with the financial side of the museum stuff but he has been away in Jordan and may be back tomorrow.
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Hennes Webmail service: Message Display Page 3 of4 > I have a few points of clarification.
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> Nobody at Babylon has the authority to employ new staff as there is no > budget provision for taki ng on new employees in 2003 unless you have > found funding from elsewhere.
> Salaries for may and june for existing employees will be paid shortly.
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: I'm as confused as you. Is the list you sent a complete list of all /~ ~- g~~ .,1 > Board of Antiquities staff in Babil province or just the Babylon site <.._ ~- ~..<: : : .· ' > > c. New vehicles.
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> (Ministry o f Culture }; llbl(6) [Ministry of > Subject : report > > dear l(b)(6 I > > was busy typing a longish email earlier only to have it crash . ~h.
> Interesting day met up with local archaeologistsl(bV6) land I \£6\ I > l(b\£6) ~ Ive typed up my notes to give you a flavour of the day hut t hij > is not an official report yet, later I should split it into the l<b)(S} > parts (my understanding of what he told me) and the Dira parts the state > of the dira buidlings and their needs . the latter w ould also need to be > run past the SBAH we dont want to suggest that Babi l dira should get > anything that ICbl£6) I do not thingk is necessary for their ~ork I > think. (Lot of inns and outs to think of here}. Fee l free to show to > l(b\16\ I who can warn me i f I ahve said anything politcially inadvi sable re > the SBAH befroe I do a final version .
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> I may not have foll owed all of the thingsfCMRI(bl£6) ;isaid so Ive > emailed a copy to him to see how much I hive misunde tood of what he > said and may see him again later next week. Otherwise I hope t o make 6 6/29/2003 http s ://webmai l. hennes. cam . ac.uk/s essi o~L..(b-)-( _) _________ ----J
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Hope you are settling in and enjoying yourself.
Thank you for thi s interesting report.
I have a few points of cl arification.
a. The issue of the new employees .
Nobody at Babylon has the authority to employ new staff as there is no budget provision for taking on new employees in 2003 unless you have found funding from elsewhere.
Salaries for may and june for existing employees will be paid shortly.
b. The number of guards
I'm as confused as you. Is the list you sent a complete list of all Board of Ant i quities staff i n Babil province or just the Babylon s i te .
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I'm wondering whether new vehicles could come from the State Department funds.
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l(bl£6) ldo you think we should approach them on this. At present it seems as Baghdad is getting all the support] d. Capital Investment Projects I need to make it clear that all previ ous capital investment proj ect s are nul l .
and void unless they are included in the 2003 budget. There are no approved projects in 2003 for Babylon except relating to the Babylon Hotel as none were put forward by the interim cabinet. If funds from other CPA pots can be found or from donors that woul d be another possibility. For the 2004 budget I would expect the Board of Antiquities to prioritise their investment plans and submit the most important to the Ministry as part of the planning round.
Let me know if you need any clarification.
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Ministry of Culture
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the Bab Ion museum (interpreter) to see museum staff and tind(b)(6) I Ran into 6 · side the gate, intr~~c~ ~vsel~ brief chat abo"'tt seum, met one of the employee and went to speak tdlhJ{6j lin her doorless, windowless office behind the musewn (spaces for doors/windows but nothing in them). General intro and chat about who I was and what I ho to be doin . I mentioned coopemtion with the SBAH and that I hoped to have a letter from 6 oon, also spoke aboU;t the possible needs of the Diraa for equipment and the loo · ng problem.
~ rai~oblem of salaries, April paid, buJ:po!'i"« for Ma;JJun~(b }( 6) !mentioned that~p~ getting approval for salaries,~~p~ )( 6) _liaison with Baghdad (I assume the min. of cult. is the min with which he haises). The May une payroll includes both existing employees and new ones. There was a discussion of the new salary classifications and that in the past the salaries of Iraqis were made up of basic salary and bonus the latter being as much as x3 the basic salary.IQal( 6) : Jaised question . of once the marines leave who are the SBAH employees~ to a oaCli about owed salary, was it ORHA or the SBAH?. I said the SBAH as bot~d (b)( 6) d told me that the arrangement for pay was for 2 or 3 people from the branch offic~govemorate to go to Baghdad, collect the cash and then pay the staff in each governorateillU®_jmentioned the importance of paying site guards well. There was a slight difference of opinion abOut the new payroJJ for whicl'{{hl[) was ~kin~ist, she said how important itwas for employees to continue to be employed, whereas~mdr~uggested that just because people had been employed in the past was not on its own a reason to employ them in the future, As we got ready to go and se~(b)(6) ~t the Diraa offices,t]lldfihltold me thal(b}(lhad a key position as far as they were concerned and that theY. werJ~in~ establish her~ty t~ex things so she could just carry on once they lett.&_m~couraged me to work throu (b)( whenever possible. He also mentioned the Babylon project, divided into 2 parts lhe resean: group~~ Babylon headed~)(~ '-] the musewn staff perhaps soon to be headed bV'1}l6)[check) (replacin 6 a change that has not quite happened yet). The ~ing has 2 Pkses: I. rebuilding t e s op, museum, public utilities and police post/station in front. Phase 2 is the rebuilding of the offices for the museum and the Babylon resean:h project a possible part of phase 2 is the restaurant (although that seems much less vital) (NB there used to be a dir flat attached or above the museum which is not being rebuilt so the dir will now Jive elsewhere)j(b)(6) lis dealing with the bids for phase 2.
So offto the Dira' offices and luckiJ~(b)(6) l.vas there. Introductionsl~6) J had told him I was coming. I asked about the looting $roblem.l(b)(6) !mentioned two sites Al-Hashimiyeh which is Neelian (Nile i.e. Abbasid) and in the Nahet al Mat-hatamiyeh in the direction ofKut and Al-Jaffara, a Babylonian site in the Nahet al Kifil, close to Nejef, so in the extreme south of the Babylon ovemorate, neither of these sites at present has guards. We asked about the guards in general, (b)(S) had a large book with the names of sites and their guards. There followed a slightly confusing conversation about guards and sites.
75 guards in the Babil governorate each of whom guards more than one site although there are a total of 140 guards in the province, the extra guards above the 75 site guards are part time or gua~i"ra's buildings and equipment(??), so 65 non site guards(?). It was then established that®Gew payroll list was going to include all the site guards as well. (It also seemed that the 75 figures were those guards appointed officiaJJy by one order and ?therefore did~ot · de anyone extra taken on later as the need arose??) There was still some confusion. (b saying that he only knew of 30 guards on the payroll, which left 45 guards unaccounted for to ring us up to 75. Then there was something about the new payroll list having only 20 guards and then it
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was said that there were 96 guards for arch sites, by which time I was totally confused{(b )( 6) l however had a doorstop size booklet with the details of guards and sites. (I had seen a ess deta· · is kind of thing for the whole of Iraq by governorate and h~d it fro (b)(6) o pc the relevant governorates in the Heartland provinces. (b)(6) version was o vtous y a ot more detailed with only about 2 sites to a page and by the loo o . ings the employment history of each guard. The last on the payroll was that there were ace tofmdr [] around 146 or 14 7 people on the payroll of whom 40 were for the Babylon museum, 'm archaeologists/clerk:s/accowttants and about 96 guards of various kinds (sites, the SBAH buil~ngs etc) although it was then said that 139 was the grand total of guards of all kinds.£mdr ~sa1d he would soon have a complete list of employees.
Qu~stion of cars and the ability of the antiquities staff to ge sites. Th~' had lost its new veh1cles to looters, but retained two old 1980s pickups with (ac m~ore than 50K km on the clock. It was generaUy felt (bi(b)(6) land m (b) that 3 new pickups was the minimum needed, I for HQ and 2 for patrols. (I think this ts e st essential item for the Dira' in Babylon, if the staff cant get out to sites they can do little work and would not be able to check up on either the guards or sites.) We then got onto the Dira's building and equipmend(b)(S ) I wants to expand the office.E_mdr [lli]mentioned that the museum rebuilding (2nd phase) might result in more office space over there which should also be taken into account, although it was also pointed out that the Dira' and museum offices were not quite in the same place.t.In~inted outre office equipment that they had no phones of any kind and suggested 4 sat phones, I for each vehicle and 1 for the office.
Obviously the office does need some kind of phone but hopefully at some point there will be land lines?.
I then had a tour of the building.
On the whole it looked reasonably solid, could definitely do with decorating (some rooms more so than others), signs ofleaks down some walls and seems to have a roof problem, it has a chinko roof(corregated iron). Replacing the roof would be a major repair. I am also wtclear if the chinko is all of the roof or just the map room.
Grmmd floor (or ftrst floor if you are American). Entrance porch with directors office on the left and a large L shaped 'sofa room' ahead, once in the sofa room there were two doors in the right wan, the further one to a small store/archive room the nearer one to a 'persormel office'.
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Directors office: large desk and armchairs, not much else.
Sofa room: sofas and annchairs, all of which have seen better {i;t' acts as waiting room several people sitting, either employees or persons waiting to speak tol )(6) I Small store/archive room: Shelves with archive papers to left and stack of annchairs recovered from, or rejected by, looters, room kept locked. Stack of leps f~ dumpy levels or theodolites, I asked if they had what went on top of the legs but mj(b)(6) ys looted.
Personnel office: I seem to remember a desk or two but no chairs. Also locked ?
Stairs to the left in the sofa room lead to first floor(UK)/second floor(US).
A landing with 4 offices leading off it and a small non-operational bathroom, no water to this one, although I think there might be a similar facility downstairs off the sofa room which I did not investigate. Another set of stairs, presumably to the roof??.
Offices:
Archaeological office: no fan, desk and 2 stands for drawing boards but the board parts missing (looted).
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Office for archaeologists and the accountant leads off the previous arch. office. Can't remember what this one had in it. Used by arch staff and sometimes by the accountant, although they also said they wanted another office for him.
Legal advisor office, this person is a recent appoinnnent. Contents: 2 desks, broken sofa, a fan, no chairs, blocked door between this office and the arch office.
Map room. One of the largest rooms, similar_ in size and shape to the sofa room. 4 windows, so plenty of light. Contents: 1 table with piles of maps/plans, more piles of these on the floor.
lfh)(6) !wants to make this into two rooms. Signs ofroofleaks down walls.
Extra archaeological staff room leading off the map room. Contents: 3 desks (1 has a badly split top), 1 metal cupboard, 3 nice big windows, balcony and a fan.
There was also I think a locked door on the landing of a room we did not go into (assuming it was a room).l(b)( 6) !mentioned ale and the possibility of a fence around the building to separate it from the houses on either side.
There was also said to be a labourers hall or room somewhere else which was locked and wtused that had been used by the teams of workmen engaged in the restoration activities in the 1980s, perhaps accommodation?. It was said to include an archive. We did not visit this.
~tioned the name of a civil engineer, a woman caneJ(b )( 6) lvho also works in the Dira' and could be involved in any repair/re-decoration work, she was not there today.
We then walked down a track to the Dira's garage a sort of fenced yard (maybe lOOm x SOm??) with breize block sheds (ie. 3 walls and a roof), none of which quite covered the equipment. More or less in the open there was a tanker, 2 tractors, 2 bul1dozerslshovels, 1 scoop earth mover with an arm (is this thing called a back hoe?) it is a haffar in Arabic, all of which were said to work.
There were also broken odds and ends and stacks of conveyor belts. 1 tractor said to have been looted and recovered. A large free standing shed on one side ..;,as said to contain only scrap items and was lockedJ(b)(S) lwould like to roof more of the area to cover the larger pieces of equipment. There is also small fuel store outside the compound and behind one of the sheds.
Back at the Dira' we met up again with~(b)(6) I mentioned a problem with some of the governorates standing ruins.
Kifl the suq Daniel and the Khan Said Nor and at Iskandiriyeh the Khan of the same name, a11 of which are in need of repair or construction.
l(b )( 6) I and the other staff expressed concern about salaries and housing matters. Houses around the Dira bel SBAH and house sitting tenants who are either empyees or former employees. (b)(6) has ?~forced to move out of his, as it was thought he had another house, he says he oes not ' o&!Jpromised to look into it. Other housing issues include squatters in the Babylon restaurant.
On the way bac~(bX6) I expressed concern about the damage to the amphitheatre and the state of the small Hammurabi museum and mentioned that the Babylon project had funds for budilign but not equipment.
Made arrangement to try to visit al Jaffarah on Saturday wi~(b)(6) Ito see the damage.
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Plan, Objectives and Milestones Outline For I MEF Babylon Project Date 21 Jun 22 Jun 22 Jun 24 Jun 25 Jun 27 Jun Ol Jul 04 Jul 05 Jul 08 Jul Action Action Person Designate Administrator OCPA Announce New Administrator to Public OCPNCATeam Call Meeting with Executive Committee Administrator ' Executive Committee Meeting Outline Table of Organization tor Museum Outline Personnel requirements Outline Table of Equipment Establish Tour Procedures for Civilians to Manage Discuss Plans for Reconstruction (Phase I & ll) Outline OCPA capabilities and financial support.-::-:-:-::::------------, (b)(6) Submit Salary requirements Hire Staff & Bring Staff together Tum collected funds to Accountant Explain Payment procedures Executive Committee Meeting
• Review Reconstmction Progress
• Plan to establish office for Administrator & staff
• Review and develop Vendor Policy
• li.o;tr.blish SOP for Museum business
• Finalize Museum layoi\t
• Review Communications access- telephone, fax, etc.
• Discuss Museum property r.nd use of it (i.e.) offices/houses in Babylon City Invite Museum Staff to I MEF 41h of July Celebration L-l(b_)_< 6 _)----:-:-----' Begin Law Enforcement Training for Museum Security CA Team Executive Committee Meeting
• Review Reconstmction Progress
• Review refurbishment progress
• Establish Security Policy and coordinated efforts w/ I MEF
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[SpRI(b)(6) lcurrently has a l i st of 7 or 8 SBAH employees i n Babylon under 1nvest i gation for theft/corrupti on etc. When this investigation is compl ete i t wi ll then be a question of dismissing people against whom there is ev i dence or of retaining people if the accusations are without substance.
With regard to pay I had a conversation with a IMajor f7hV6)l who works at the treasury in Hillah. The treasury is not a bank~t it~draws money from the bank and pays it out to civil servants etc. This arrangement grew out of the fact that paying out directly from the bank stopped all other bus i ness in the bank due to security considerations. (In jul y some time, this arrangement will change sli ghtly in that it, the treasury, will authorize payment and then send the audit commi ttee to withdraw the money from the banK ~~~~~jr I enquired about the procedure that would be necessary for · reas~to release funds to an audit commit t ee (for instance 6 andUlULJ of SBAH emP. l oyees so that a l l the SBAH employees in Ba 1 governorate could .be paid."l?aj~said that t he payroll would have to be authorized in Baghda~n~ ie we would have to take a paper copy of the list to Baghdad for it to be signed and stamped and then bring it back to the treasu~y in Hi l lah who could then release the funds. This is the point of view of the treasury. (or Baghdad could just send us an authorized list if it generated one itself, I assume t~h~£:J 'Baghdad' this might mean the interim cultural cabinet who ace to need t o authorize the list (?). I am however still unclear whether it i s the SBAH or the cultural cabinet or the min of cult to whom we present this payroll list if we do it that way around or perhaps the SBAH al:j(){ ~ . i~ such a list ? What is quite clear however from speaking withlf:.aJ b 6 lS that we can not just email a list to the min of cult and rece1ve an e ail back, a fax he said would be permiss i ble but as the fax is not possible anyway, that only leaves paper copies of ~he payroll to be physically signed and stamped.
Anyway, j ust in case we will get a complete payroll list ready in the next few days (I will be looking at looted sites near Nejef tomorrow so it will have to be Monday) and then see how it can be authorized.
Unlessl(bJ(6lyou can tell me differently then I suppose we try to br i ng this l ist to ag dad for authorization ?? I am still unclear as to t he pay rates un l ess jlhJ~)~ go wi th what we understand the old rates to have been ??
Perhaps could ask lfh\(6\ I (if he is still around and ?has not gone to the Rencontre) about this if he has any insight.
I have been told by people in the HACC here that the cash is available in H i llah to pay May/june sa l aries for the Babil governorate. Un l ess~ has some certain knowledge that the pay for the SBAH employees is go i ng to arri ve by some other route then I think we assume we are going to have some dealings with the treasury in Hillah at some point.
Further clarification of a practical nature i s always welcome.
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you did say that j(b)(6 pnJ(b)(6l ~ited the dept but not what was said.
I've been sending queries about position as far as the SBAH are concerned for a while. here is todays pay saga, personalt{h I would be quite happy to leave all the pay stuff alone as I am sure that __ )£6) land the SBAH can do it all on their own just fine.
9th July - the pay saga continues This saga has occupied an inordinate amount of time and I suspect that if left alone the system would work just fine without me. However it is complicated by the specific position of Babylon and its museum inside a marine camp. There is also a complication re the position of lib)£6) lwhom the Marines/CPA South Central have installed as head of the Babylon project and (as I understand it) they regard her as the senior SBAH employee in the Babil governorate. I am not sure that the SBAH knows or agrees with any of this, I am unclear if the inspector is always the seniord[rson in a :
governorate in which case the inspector for Babi~sl_)£6) _I I don’t know if the SBAH would be fine about(bX6) appointment as long as it was clea~hat she was not the senior pers abil gov but subordinate t~. As I d r nd it the MEF replaced the original inspector (the Wlfe of whose name I forget) and also the original director of the museum although he is still working as a guide at the site) I thin e previous inspectors no 2, I don’t know who appointed h1m inspectorship which he now holds.
One of the complications is that the MEF see Babylon and its museum but do not really know much or anything about the Diraa al athar and therefore do not see the rest of the structure of which the museum is a part. (One result of this confusion is that the museum staff was led to see themselves as being separated off from the rest of the Oiraa and thought that this might mean two salaries, as with expeditions in the past) .
Another complication is that the Marines are convinced that the generation of a payroll is in their hands as well as the appointment of an auditing committee and they were busy with both o~e when I arrived . I was a bit surprised as I was fairly sure that both (b)(6) and l!b)(6) lhad said ~he SBAH would be organizing its own payroll and t e anding out of salanes. As a result I sent several querying emails to Baghdad in case I was supposed to be doing something at this end.
This week it is clear that= payroll has arrived from Baghdad and or been generated by~(6) _ land is now with the treasury in Hillah (although at pesent the treasury does not have enough cash to pay anyone)· The treasury only needs the summary of how many employees on each pay grade there are, rather than their exact names. It was also clear that the audit committee that turned up at the treasury consisted of and Sua~ the ac;:countant (all I a~sume appoin~ed as such bY.!he SB~ ?~?}~ Tte ~ comm1ttee that the ~ad dec~ded upon wasl(bM6) ____ -~ lfh}(6j Faced with this lC"nR 6 decided that just replacing! )( ) 1t l.O:ULJ U}Jwould be sufficient.-r a very uneasy about all this and would not have become involved with the pay business at all if it had not been for the insistence of the Marines tpat it was our job to institute a payroll and the news that the treasury was unable to pay (which made me decide I had to go to the treasury to find out why) . I am also uneasy about altering an
~udit committee if it had been instituted by the SBAH, although the major
• ·------------------------------- in the treasury said I could do so infact he also said I could change the payroll which I wou~ ~}.so he verv rrluctant to do . I do now have a copy of payroll that was i~)6) _possession. It has a different no of employees than the ~s 1n progress with the Marines (but this may just be d4e to the fact that overseers (sheikhs) and guards without contracts are not included in~ list, Originally the Marines at Babylon also had '+- different set of pay grades which also added some confusion esp since~aplJ i ~£6Jjclaimed to have these from the Hillah treasury (and they are not the same at all to the pay grades the Hillah treasury is using now) .
One other reason for confusion has been that we don’t really know what leapt 6 was doing with regard to some matters and he has now gone to K~i t. He ld me that he had okayed IL.h}l£] appointment with Baghdad but I have no idea which part of &i8216;Baghdad’, I think he may have communicated with military channels only and not perhaps with either the SBAH nor the Min of cult. He does seem to have had a lot of dealings with l(b)(6) I though, so perhaps that is the key.
I would very much like some guidance from the Ministry as to the respective status of the various senior employees of the SBAH in Babil gov. ie the inspector, the dir of research and the museum director~ r_:ould also like to know if the SBAH is aware of and in agreement wit)f_)(6ll appointment as dir of research ie head of the Babylon project and(b_ !appointment as dir of the museum. Thirdly, it would be nice to know w~r the audit · committee should remain as it has been i.e.l(bV6) land ~or changed .
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> Dearl(bX6) I Just tried to phone you as we've had some emails to say > that >you are ill. Is this true ?? Has someone got the wrong end of the stick ?
> I hope so.
: I thought l emailed you about the day that j(b)(6) I came to see >l(b\f6) I >They told her lfbX6) I etc., were all there too) that >~\16\ }could not be making such separate decisions and that thf(b~ofld > av~hink about these things in the future. I then spoke to __ L6_ I > and~and told them about you but at no time as far as I am.aware did > they approve that proposal. For one thing it seemed to be sett1ng up some > kind of separate initiative.
> I forgot t9 tell you that your mother has sent an aerogram. Shall I > keep it? there currently doesn't seem to be a way of getting post down to > you. I declared officially that you had left as some people have been > getting into trouble at the al Rashid but so far no one has been moved > into your bed.
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> I have been despair~ ~ btt today as I had many people shouting at me > at the museum. Even __ )(_) _seemed a bit disheartened. All those who can >make a decision are at the Rencontre. I had another t:~~~rr;i ' e with > furniture etc., from Jordan & things were going wrong tCb 61 was > prancing about being annoying and yet another film crew urne~p. I have > wrangled some money out of th for painting the offices and have > arranged a contract fo & negotiated a discount for the doors, >windows etc., but can't s em to t through to him on the phone at all (& >still haven't actually met him).
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> While I was busy down in Nejef yesterday some of the museum staff went > to the treasury in Hillah and it seems that money for salaries has > arrived but that it i s insufficient to pay everyone. There is some > confusion as to the audit co th · seem to think the > audit committee is/should be the audil£hxmrittee > that went to the treasury was 6 nd who > are presumably the committe chosen by the S . e also eard t~ > payroll list has arrived at the treasury also from Baghdad. foR b 6 >and I are going to the treasury tomorrow to find out about tlUrproble >with the money being insufficient to pay everyone. CDRI(b\(6) lseema to > still think we need to put in a payroll list to the treasury, but as far > as I can see if the SBAH has already put a list into the treasury there > is no need for this.
~ I did have the slight feeling that there might be a difference > opinion as to l(b)(6) !position between the SBAH and the MEF (Marine > expeditionary forc~\(6) I has apparently seen the MEF plan for the > museum which lists as director of the B~~;;j project and did not at > the time raise an~ objection (this is ace to . The MEF document says > they had agreedlfb (6) jappointment with the SBAH, but this may be news to > the SBAH.
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> I am finding all this stuff very confusing. I think the presence of > the > Marines here and their involvement in the museum has led to a an extra > layer of confusion (although obviously that is not their intention} .
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: ; I'm trying to get an •organogram' as~ calls it for the SBAH & > > the ~ >>various museums etc ., We want to know who is who and what are their job > > descriptions. I asked about Babylon and mentionedlfih\{6~ land will >>give you more i nfo in another email but ~t]~'6' I andUllJ > >~(who is currently in the absence of 6 the acting direc~or of > > the museumliCbV6\ I is just a researc er an should not be makmg > > decisions down there . I shall find out more.
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am attaching short report on meeting at the local antiquities office. Did not quite ~everyones n _ ames but perhaps I will run through the personnel list withutULJsoemtime and get a better idea of who does what. Have been photoing the state of the greek theatre buildings and the small temples and the repairs to the museum (its a bit dark inside so it is mostly exterior shots) . The decorating contractor has mended the ziguarat model and it looks qu~= ~ood. I spent toda uring fencing to be repaired in the morning. ~R (b\(6\ I and off for a meeting about the FPS.
We had a workign lunch with · TC b 6 re activities at Camp Babylon. I said the min of cult needed a repor o 11 the recent modifications for record purposes, he was fine with that so I will do a tour pass on friday.
we established that no more earth movign activities are planned nor heavy vehicle movements over the mounds. Although the no. of people in the camp may increase slightly with the Poles now arriving before the marines start to retrograde the only difference this will make is that one of the helicopter pads will have tents on it.
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Meeting at the Diraat al Athar Babylon 20111 July This meeting was requested by local archaeolo 'sts and Babylon mUSI':'t'? staffand guards around 40 of whom turned up (b)(6) chaired the meetin~(~6) I the inspector was not present. Many of the archeologists from the Babil governorate have also worked on other expeditions further south and even in the north. One person from the Diwaniye office who lives in Hillah also turned up 6 . There were two people from the Assur team, one from the Ur team, ditt b 6 d leaders of the teams from Umm al Agari other members ofhis team expedition~(~b)(~6~)~~=--__,....,....,....-..,....-r""'T""...,.-,--r-..r'',~~-;:-:-~=~i'W--,~ There was even someone w o wor at ssaya and Abu Skreyru.;;.~L..--..$ looted sites that I had visited near Nejef. (I had not known that the Dept. had been excavating these particular sites near Nejef.) Many of these sites were being excavated in recent years because of the looting problem.
the SBAH tried to put archaeologists at looted sites as a way of keeping the looters away.
The archaeologists suggested that this might be a way of dealing with the looting again and asked when excavation might resume. I was told that a year's work at a site would cost around 20 to 25 million ID as well as 5 mill ID to prepare machines (maintenance). I was not quite clear what these machines were. I said that the continuation of excavation immediately depended on the budget of the SBAH and I am unsure if they have budgeted for excavation in this financial year.
As well as resuming excavation they had the following suggestions about improving the security of sites.
Extension of farming, extra eyes in the countryside ifmore areas are farmed. (I am not necessarily convinced that this would work.) Work with the local sheikhs, pay them ifnecessary or divide and rule with the different tribes.
Build excavation houses at the site.
Every expedition needs phones to communicate any problems Co-operation required with the police and the local governor as well as the local antiquities dept.
~¥-~~<lof...&lw.dll....n..a"' · , ch I think everyone already knows about as the ~e:;~a..;;;.L.l,;;.L...,_ __ .u; ent over to the Diraat a few days ago about this and toda (b)(6) as not there because he and the governor were out looking at sites. The response in general was that that fine as a long tenn solution but what about right now?.
The security situation was of great concern. And although the archaeologists were keen to get back into the field to deter the looters the fact that this might not be entirely safe was also on their minds. It transpired as discussion continued that several of the expedition dig houses had been burnt and looted for instance those at Tell Shmid, Umm a1 Aqarib and Jokha. I was not entirely clear if this was very recent i.e. during the war or whether
this was a problem dating back to the pre-recent war period. Either way while the archaeologists wanted to improve the security of the sites by going into the field it also seemed that the security had to improve in general for them to move back into these areas. The dig house at Abel Antiq was said to be all right. I tried to find out exactly where this site was but the directions were vague it seems it is in the north of the Qadisiyeh governorate/south ofBabil Governorate. I need to take a very detailed map and go through some of the small village names with someone who knows the area well.
The one person who felt he could go back to work at his site in safety was the person who worked at Ur, as it is now in the Talil airbase,[(hl[] did not think this was such a good idea.
One perso~(b)(6) Jccountant to the Jokha and Umm al Aqarib teams) reminded lhat many of the s1tes being looted were not and never had been excavated and it was important not to lose sight of them.
There were a series of questions about Babylon itself
1.. When would the site once again be open to all visitors The answer to this seems to be in 3 to 6 months when the Marines leave, I believe the boundaries of the current camp will contract when it is just the Poles there. I will check to make sure I have got that right.
2. Could the museum be enlarged ?
My answer to this was that the rules about CPA funds was that we could repair war and looting damage but could not build new buildings at the present time. (I have been told this is the rule for the various discretionary funds we are presently using to repair the museum). I think we are also allowed to demolish anything that is unsafe. So we were going to repair the museum and its administrative offices but could not build new parts of the museum. Someone joked that this funding rule might be got around if the accountant was given a salary increase.
3. Were there pl;~o repair the Hammurabi museum (this question from the people who used to work in i b)( 6) J I replied that at the present time our tmmediate repair plans were for the museum administration offices and there were no immediate plans to repair the Hammurabi museum. We were aware that both it and the Courtyard south of the Greek theatre had damage as a result ofthe looting. I was planning to photograph this and send the record to Baghdad. ·
4. Was there money available for items like vehicle repairs?
I was able to reply that the Ministry of Culture had indeed sent funds for operating expenses to the treasury in Hillah that should be there and which they could collect part of and pay for vehicle repairs. (However I was also warned in a staffmeeting this week that someone in the Ministry of Finance had frozen such operating funds, so we will see if the audit committee is able to access these funds and if they have indeed arrived.)
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With that and general thanks to everyone the meeting closed.
On the whole I felt it was a good meeting in which people got things off their chests. I thought it reflected well on their general professionalism that their first questions were all archaeological first the sites they had worked at in the south and the looting problem, then the state of Babylon and its museums and lastly the pay issue. The head of the Umm al Aqarib teaml(b)(6) ~eemed particularly on the ball. Also some sorting out and tidying 'Up had taken place since I visited last, the personnel office was now in use for instance.
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Went to the Bab I interpreter) to see museum staff and fin~~)(6) ~ lfhlim Ran into (b)( 6) · ust inside the gate, introduced m self, brie c at about ~eum, me one of the emp oyees 6 d went to speak to in her door less, windowless office behind the museum spaces for doors/windows but nothing in them). General intro and chat about who I was and what I hoped to be doing. I mentioned cooperation with the SBAH and that I hoped to have a letter fromliliV6) boon, also spoke about the possible needs of the Diraa for equipment and the looting problem.
~raised the roblem of salaries, April paid, but !JOth~ for May or June. 1!2)( 6) llnentioned ~p 6 as getting approval for salaries, 'Capt lil>)(6) biaison with SB'ghdad (1 assume the min. of cult. is the min with which he t:aries). The May!Jtn"e payroll includes both existing employees and new ones. There was a discussion of the new salary classifications and that in the past the safaries of Ira is w e made up of basic salary and bonus the latter being as much as x3 the basic salary 6 aised question of once the marines leave who arpthe SBAH employees ~sed f~:Qoro; about gwed salary, was it ORHA or t~ SBAH?~ I said the SBAH as bothl!.blUand _{!>){6) Jhad told me that the arrangement for pay was for 2 or 3 people from the branch offiil oK 1 ~vern . orate to go to Baghdad, collect the cash and then pay the staff in each governorate b 6 entioned the importance ~~h)tlg site guards well. There was a slight difference of opmaon a out the new payroll for which was makin a Jist, she said how important it was for employees to continue to be employed, wher (bX6) uggested that just because people had been employed ;, the ast was not on its own a ~j( t}"j.ploy them in the future. As we got ready to go and see b 6 t the Diraa offices b 6 old me that[{hll}ad a key position as far as they were concerne and that they were oping to establish her authority to execute things so she could just carry on once they left. 6 ncouraged me to work through[!illwhenever possible. He also mentioned the Babylon proJect, divided into 2 h~ the r t Bab I ed b and the museum staff perhaps soon to d {bX6) check) (replacing 6 a c ange that has not qutte appene yet). The out mg as p ases: 1. rebuilding the shop, museum, public utilities and police ~ w~ ~ post/station in front. Phase 2 is the rebuilding of the offices for the museum and the Babylon r·· 1 :
research project a possible part of phase 2 is the restaurant (although that seems much less vita ~ a?
(NB there used to be a dir flat attached or above the museum which is not being rebuilt so the dir • will now live elsewhere).,{b)(6) ~s dealing with the bids for phase 2.
So off to the Dira' offices and Juckil~(b)(6) had told him 1 was coming. I asked about the looting problem. Al-Hashimiyeh which is Neelian (Nile i.e. Abbasid) and in the ~as there. lntroductionsl'=':(b:r:X=6=)-====--...J ention~ two stfes Mat-hatamiyeb in the direction ofKut and AI-Jaffara, a Babylonian site in the Nahet al Kifil, close to Nejef, so in the extreme south of the Babyl~~;)rnJate, neither of these sites at present has guards. We asked about the guards in genera . ad a large book with the names of sites and their guards. There followed a slightly confusmg conversation about guards and sites.
75 guards in the Babil governorate each of whom guards more than one site although there are a 1 _ ~~.:.._total of 140 guards in the province, the extra guards above the 75 site guards are part time or q-{c, -~ Ji.luard the Dira's buildings and equipment(??), .so 65 non site guards(?). It was then established \1 ~ that!Ihl[]new payroll list was going to include all the site guards as well. (lt also seemed that the 1 r (I 75 figures were those guards appointed officially by one order and ?therefore di · de
b) 1 C anyone extra taken on later as the need arose??) There was still some confusion ying r~~ that he only knew of3,.Qgu~s on the payroll, which left 45 guards unaccounted or to bring us ' up to 75. Then there was something about the new payroll list having only 20 guards and then it )
was said that there were 96 guards for arc . h sites, by which time I was totally confused.l(i))(6)1 however had a doorstop size booklet with the details of guards and sites. (I had seen a ~ detailed version of this kind of thing for the whole of Iraq by governorate and had borrowed it froml(b)(6) Ito pc the relevant governorates in the Heartland provinces.~~(6) ~ersion was obv1ously a lot more detailed with only about 2 sites to a page and by the loo of thinr the employment history of each guard. The last on the payroll was that there were ace tQ(b)(6 I around 146 or 147 people on the payroll of whom 40 were for the Babylon museum, 30 archaeo~untants and about 96 Suards of various kind, s (sites, ffieJSBAH ~!dings etc) although it was then said that '1 39 was the grand total of guards of all kinds.l(b)(6l ~aid he would soon have a complete Jist of employees.
Question of cars and the ability of the antiquities staff to· get to sites\!-=·:=A:l~~~~~~~~ vehicles to looters, but retained two old 1980s ick s wi h ace t on the clock. It was generally felt (byu...;;,bLJo,;;.6._,.....,....,--,--"':"":""....,..........,....--l minimum needed1 I for HQ and 2 for patrols. I think this is the most sential item for the Dira' JiiBabylon, if the staff cant get out to sites they can do little work and would not be able to check up on either the guards or sites.) We then got onto the Dira's building and equipmend(bX6) ~ants to expand the office.(lliX~ fihlnentioned that the museum rebuilding (200 phase) might result in more office space over there ~i~h should also be taken into account, althou it was also pointed out that the Dira' and museum offices were not quite in the same plac b 6 inted out re office equipment that they had no phones of any kind and suggested 4 sat phones, I for each vehicle and 1 for the office.
Obviously the office does need some kind of phone but hopefully at some point there will be land lines?.
I then had a tour of the building.
On the whole it looked reasonably solid, could definitely do with decorating (some rooms more so than others), signs of leaks down some walls and seems to have a roof problem, it has a chinko roof(corregated iron). Replacing the roof would be a major repair. I am also unclear if the chinko ?
is all of the roof or just the map room. ~ u Ground floor (or first floor if you are American). Entrance porch with directors office on the left and a large L shaped 'sofa room' ahead, once in the sofa room there were two doors in the right wall, the further one to a small store/archive room the nearer one to a 'personnel office'.
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Directors office: large desk and armchairs, not much else.
Sofa room: sofas and ormchair.;, all of whkh have seen better/ays. ac~s j waiting room several people sitting, either employees or persons waiting to speak t (b)(6) Small store/archive room: Shelves with archive papers to left and stac of armchairs recovered from, or rejected by, looters, room kept locked. Stack of legs for dumpy levels or theodolites, I asked if they had what went on top of the legs but n ays looted.
Personnel office: l seem to remember a desk or two but no cliairs. Also locked ?
Stairs to the left in the sofa room lead to first floor(UK)/second floor(US).
A landing with 4 offices leading off it and a small non-operational bathroom, no water to this one, although l think there might be a similar facility downstairs off the sofa room which I did not investigate. Another set of stairs, presumably to the roof??.
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Archaeological office: no fan, desk and 2 stands for drawing boards but the board parts missing (looted).
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Office for archaeologists and the accountant leads off the previous arch. office. Can't remember what this one had in it. Used by arch staff and sometimes by the accountant, although they also said they wanted another office for him.
Legal advisor office, this person is a recent appointment. Contents: 2 desks, broken sofa, a fan, no chairs, blocked door between this office and the arch office.
Map room. One of the largest rooms, similar in size and shape to the sofa room. 4 windows, so len oflight. Contents: I table with piles of maps/plans, more piles ofthese on the floor.
(b)(6) ants to make this into two rooms. Signs of roof leaks down walls.
Extra archaeological staff room leading off the map room. Contents: 3 desks (1 has a badly split top), 1 metal cupboard, 3 nice big windows, balcony and a fan.
There was also I think a locked door on the landing of a room we did not go into (assuming it was a room)flb)(6)lmentioned ale and the possibility of a fence around the building to separate it from the~n either side.
There was also said to be a labourers hall or room somewhere else which was locked and unused that had been used by the teams of workmen engaged in the restoration activities in the 1980s, perhaps accommodation?. It was said to include an archive. We did not visit this.
~entioned the name of a civil engineer, a woman called12)< 6) !who also works in the Dira' and could be involved in any repair/re-decoration work, she was not there today.
We then walked down a track to the Dira's garage a sort offenced yard (maybe 1OOm x SOm??) with breize block sheds (ie. 3 walls and a roof), none of which quite covered the equipment. More or less in the open there was a tanker, 2 tractors, 2 bulldozers/shovels, l scoop earth mover with an arm (is this thing called a back hoe?) it is a haffar in Arabic, all of which were said to work.
There were also broken odds and ends and stacks of conveyor belts. I tractor said to have been looted and recovered. A large free standing shed on one side was said to contain only scrap items and was locked.l(b)(6) !would like to roof more of the area to cover the larger pieces of equipment. There is also small fuel store outside the compound and behind one of the sheds.
Back at the Dira' we met up again with ~r l(b )( 6) the ovemorates standin ruins.
Kifl the suq Daniel and the which are in need of repair or construction.
(mentioned a problem with some of han Said Nor and at Iskandiriyeh the Khan of the same name, all of
(b)(6) t e 1ra be employees (b)(6) he says he does no the Babylon restaurant.
and the other staff expressed concern about salaries and housing matters. Houses around e SBAH and house sitting tenants who are either em~~ees or fonner . as been forced to move out of his, as it was thought he had another house, 6 promised to look into it. Other housing issues include squatters in On the way backl{b)(6) !expressed concern about the damage to the amphitheatre and the
• state of the small Harnmurabi museum and mentioned that the Babylon project had funds for c~ ~but not equipment.
Made arrangement to try to visit al Jaffarah on Saturday wit~{b)(6) Ito see the damage.
of this riverside area is the site of building debris that was presumably left over from the building of the Saddam Palace. The track at the base and to the west of the Saddam mound has been 'prepped' (ie. Skimmed, earth dwnped, watered, compacted) and graveled. It is regularly watered to keep the dust down.
Gravel has been added to an area west of the tarmacked car park that is immediately west of the Greek amphitheatre. Presumably this area was prepped also. A couple of fuel tankers are parked on this area close to the fence with the car park. An extension of this graveled area was observed in progress on 17th July up to the fence of the Hammurabi museum and was sufficiently alarming with bulldozing, steam rollering to compact the earth etc. tha~(b)(6) !md I intervened and asked the camp commandanUcLTC ICbl(6) Jlto stop the work and not to use the area as a truck park as originaltY"lntended.
An area north of this was starting to be used to store containers from trucks and these have now been moved to the paved car park at the east entrance to the site. In the area west of the amphitheatre where archaeological deposits are right at the surface the trucking of heavy machinery is likely to cause considerable damage. On the 25th July a 'ditch witch' was observed in use in this area, cutting into an area of mound to lay a cable. The driver was asked to desist and agreed, his work does not seem to have authorized bygq(b)(6) I To the north west of the amphitheatre are two fuel bladders surrounded by earth bi.rms (ridges). It is not entirely clear where the earth for these came from, whether it was trucked in from outside the camp or the result of earth moving within the camp. Also in this area is a possible Iraqi army bunker position the construction of which is different to the Coalition bunkers.
Helicopter landing zones
It is in these areas that some of the most extensive surface bulldozing took place. The northern landing zone or LZ is NW of the amphitheatre, east of the processional way and west of one of the lakes. One part of this LZ is an already tarmacked area, this was then extended by bulldozing areas of the mounds flat and compacting them etc. One of these areas was described as clumpy or lumpy. I do not know if these were the remains of excavated mud brick walls that were eroding or the irregular surface of unexcavated mounds, either way the surface was bulldozed flat. It seems likely that this will have damaged archaeological deposits as they are generally close to the surface in this part of the site.
The southern landing zone near the southern ECP (entry check point) to the west of the road was apparently mostly gardens with ridges and ditches for irrigation like the remaining area immediately north of it. These ridges were bulldozed flat, red earth dumped and compacted and watered. It is then watered each day. A number of bunkers were dug into this area especially on its northern and western sides. The sections in all of these were scrutinized and none had any archaeological deposits in them. All seem to be agricultural soiVriver silt. Some of the bunkers utilized the concrete bunker sections which reduce greatly the amount of digging that is done. In other areas of the site, concrete above ground bunkers are the norm.
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