A small measure of relief can be found in the return of several historical artifacts stolen from the Iraqi and Syrian people after plundering by ISIS.
The world has reacted with outrage and suffered the loss of historical treasures and landmarks at the hands of ISIS which has prided itself to be cleansing the region of a cultural history at odds to what the terrorist network considers to be non-conforming to its ideals. We featured such incidents HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
The raid lends credence to evidence that ISIS is selling artifacts on the illicit antiquities market to raise funds for its operations.
Iraqi officials reportedly stated that the extend of the plundering is unknown in areas controlled by ISIS but believes the high-profile destruction of ancient sites, distributed by ISIS propaganda operatives, is also an effort to divert attention away from the fact that ISIS is selling the artifacts. ISIS also considers some artifacts to be idolatrous but it seems equally important to remove the items via putting them up for sale.
United States Ambassador Stuart Jones stated in an interview with reporters at Baghdad’s national museum during the treasures’ return ceremony:
Ambassador Stuart Jones
“This is the first tangible evidence that Daesh [ISIS] are selling artefacts to fund their activities. Their goal is to sell these antiquities on the global black market. Today’s effort represents one success in the efforts to return Iraq’s historic patrimony, but the campaign to return all of Iraq’s treasures continues.”
U.S. Special Forces operators discovered the treasures when they raided an ISIS command center southwest of Deir al-Zor, about sixty miles from the Syria-Iraq border. The raid killed Abu Sayyaf who at the time was an ISIS Commander tasked with facilitating ISIS’ gas and oil sales.
In light of these and other revelations, the international community needs to take concrete steps to curtail illegal trade in ancient artifacts. Such efforts have now not only facilitate the precedent of protecting history for humanity but depriving ISIS and other terrorists funds to further their inhumanity.
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24 thoughts on “U.S. Special Forces Return ISIS Plundered Relics To Iraq”
Gigi D,
P.S. Moses didn’t insidiously, dangerously and falsely insinuate the Israelites into Egypt, presuming to be eligible to vote in the Egyptian’s country. Moses knew that Egypt was the nation of Egyptians.
Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, to the Promised Land, before the ink was dry on their
“Emancipation Proclamation.”
Moses was a truly great leader who provided freedom and the Israelites were self-reliant people.
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Gigi D., the problem is the American country has been illegally invaded and the vote of Americans diluted. Foreigners, who have no constitutional standing and no right to vote, have been illicitly enlisted by liberals to overwhelm the vote and make America a “one-party” state. California already is. One-party control by the liberal collectivists is coming soon to a town near you. If “illegal aliens” were in demand as cheap labor for business, “guest worker” passes should have been issued – free foreigners who desire to work for free American business have that right (despite the protestations of liberal, collectivist union thugs).
“Guest Workers” not “voters.”
The Founders of America, a restricted-vote republic, wrote about restricting immigration to familiar and congruous people of similar background, culture, tradition, ideology, ethics, etc. who would be able to assimilate with facility.
The Founders warned against “Balkanization” or the fragmenting of America which would “change and corrupt” America confusing its character and personality and aligning it with foreign agendas.
The Founders admonished against “discordant intermixture” which will be “injurious” to America.
To wit:
Alexander Hamilton –
“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.”
“In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
Americans must re-implement the founding documents. Corrective action must be to rescind the vote and “citizenship” of all who circumvented the legal, constitutional immigration process originating in their home country, whether by unnecessary “asylum,” illegal “amnesty” or unconstitutional “amendment,” granting “guest worker” passes in “non-voting” status until compassionate repatriation is effected.
“Multiculturalism” is impossible and will not stand on its own. “Multiculturalism” must be propped up with artificial constructs, such as Affirmative Action, and is antithetical and unconstitutional racial bias.
The “injurious” disarticulation of America by “discordant intermixture” has gone on long enough.
Ben Franklin, 1789, “…a republic, if you can keep it.”
Ben Franklin, 2015, “…a republic, if you can take it back.”
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I’m not sure returning the artifacts is a good idea–not now anyway. We should store them in a safe place and return them to Iraq when this blood thirsty war is over with–if it ever will be.
All records that been acquired point to and question Obama’s eligibility of citizenship. The last 7 years have proven his heart is not for the U.S., but for his own agenda. Yet, people keep supporting him. Why? Is it because people are afraid to admit they made a mistake in voting for this man?
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The selling of the artifacts by ISIS only proves that they are not true Muslims, but radical and political murderers who are hiding behind the name of God, or Allah in this case.
They are out for blood and glory only, not to justify Allah–only themselves.
May God show them their true selves and may they repent for their sinful ways.
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@forgetwhoiam: If Obama was born in 1961, then in 1968-70 he was 7-9 years old, making it pretty clear that it wasn’t he who filled out the application for the school. I award you minus one point for failing to check your work. To complete the irony circle I’m sure some a-hole will bring up your error 45 years from now as proof you couldn’t do math.
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Karen S, All candidates should be asked questions about the Constitution. We don’t want a Constitutional Convention, because it opens the whole thing for rewrite.
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Karen S.,
P.S. Ask him if he ever read and assimilated the Preamble, the essential American Context, to get a sense of just what it is we’re doing here.
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Karen S., his birth site is completely immaterial. He is not a “natural born citizen” as the Constitution requires. His mother was only one parent as an American citizen. His father was a citizen of a foreign country. The Founders used:
Law of Nations, Book I, Chapter 19, § 212
“Natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens…it is necessary that they be born of a father who is a citizen.”
The Washington/Jay letter, 1785, raised the requirement from “citizen” to “natural born citizen” to put a “strong check” against foreign allegiances by the commander-in-chief.
All of the Founders spoke the French of Vattel, who was Swiss.
All Presidents followed the Presidential eligibility requirements of the Constitution for 219 years.
Obama broke the law.
The next time you hear someone claim that he is a Constitutional Scholar, ask him if he is sickened by the current nullified status and anemic condition of the foundational documents. If he’s not ailing and discontented, he’s not a Constitutional Scholar.
Abraham Lincoln illegally and criminally suspended the Preamble, Constitution and Bill of Rights. Those founding documents have carried no weight or force since Lincoln’s “Reign of Terror” Obama has ignored and controverted the Constitution. Two weeks ago, the judicial branch abused its power against the people , usurped the power of the legislative branch and “legislated from the bench,” bringing Lincoln’s nullification up to date.
The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is omnipotent and immutable…and entirely without fear.
Any “Constitutional Scholar” is by definition an HISTORIAN.
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forgotwhoiam:
From claiming to be a foreign born citizen in his book, claiming to be Muslim in Indonesia, claiming to be Christian in the US . . . Obama appears to resemble Dolezal, Warren, et al in which he claims to have whatever attributes give him the best advantage for college entrance or career advancement.
Much of his upbringing was in Hawaii with his banker grandmother in a privileged life, so he had a lot to overcome to get any street cred as a community activist for minorities. He had to claim to be only Muslim, to fit in, in Indonesia, although technically having a Muslim father makes him Muslim in the eyes of Sharia Law no matter how he was actually raised. Then he focused on being Christian here in the US because that gave him the most political advantage. I don’t think his mother or grandparents were very religious.
He’s a chameleon, reinventing himself to take the most advantage rather than just picking an identity and sticking with it. (Let me add that I believe he was born in Hawaii.)
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randyjet:
Plus it kept them from being destroyed. Many ancient structures were reused as building materials, so taking some pieces out of the country saved them.
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My only concern is are we returning the artifacts to Iraq where they will ultimately be stolen again and/or destroyed by ISIS if its reach grows? That’s the trend. Perhaps it would have been a better idea to safeguard these artifacts by some international museum networks for safekeeping until ISIS has been removed. If extremists take over the country, more than they already have, they can be saved.
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COMEDY OF ERRORS
– Indonesian Citizen – “…photographed the document in the office of the current headmaster of Santo Fransiskus Assisis, a Catholic school that Obama attended from January 1968 to December 1970 in Jakarta. The record shows that Obama…claimed to be an Indonesian citizen, that he took the last name Soetoro…his religion was…Islam…born in Honolulu.”
– Drug User – 1979 – Obama was a good but not outstanding student at Punahou, played varsity (not JV) basketball and, as he later admitted, “dabbled in drugs and alcohol,” including marijuana and cocaine. As for religion, Obama later wrote, because his parents and grandparents were nonbelievers, “I was not raised in a religious household.”
– Community Organizer – Chicago – 1985 – Obama accepted an offer to work as a community organizer in Chicago’s largely poor and black South Side. “…the job gave Obama “his first deep immersion into the African American community he had longed to both understand and belong to.”
– Illinois Project Vote – Obama/Soetoro engaged in “vote fraud,” attempts at manipulation of the vote directed “Illinois Project Vote, a voter registration drive aimed at increasing black turnout in the 1992 election…” (Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963… “These ——-, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference… I’ll have them ——- voting Democratic for the next two hundred years”. “Inside the White House” – Ronald Kessler).
– Obamacare – 2010
– ISIS, 2014 – “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Barrack Obama – Barry Soetoro.
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– July, 2015 – IRAN GETS NUKES
“Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA) – (Iran Nuclear Agreement)
********************
Crowd in Teheran, “DEATH TO AMERICA!”
“Arrogant US administration will not change” policy of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei.
“The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei stressed on Saturday that Iran’s foreign policy towards the “arrogant US administration will not change” and won’t be affected by the latest nuclear deal.” – Lebanese Communication Group
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– July 2015 – Plundered Relics Returned To Iraq
ONE OUT OF A HUNDRED AIN’T BAD.
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The word is “artifacts”. I had my spelling wrong.
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Doglover: It is a good thing that the British Museum has articacts from ancient Greece, Egypt et al. Otherwise the ISIS perps would destroy them all and there would not be such things for the world to see. So what if somene stole them in prior years. They preserved them.
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I hate to defend British imperialism, but one of the most contentious items are the so called Elgin marbles from the Parthenon in Athens. Those were bought from the Ottoman Empire when it had control of Greece and the Greeks themselves had done nothing at all to preserve or keep them. The Brits followed the law when they acquired them, thus not stealing.
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Good thing that US bombs didn’t touch any European, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese, Afghan, Iraqi, Libya, ancient architecture and artifacts. And all those ancient artifacts in the British Museum from around the world probably just floated into the museum by themselves. Surely they weren’t stolen from areas plundered by the British military.
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Nice to read. However, we may need special forces to protect the history of Confederate soldiers engraved in Stone Mountain, Ga. The American Taliban/ISIS wants to destroy those images.
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We need to cut off the sale of oil and gas by ISIS. Period.
We need to set forth a special day each month called Death To ISIS Day. The ISIS person is killed, their head cut off, and displayed in the farmers’ market in Cairo Egypt. The heads can be sold kind of like the tissue from abortions is sold for medical purpose and money and profit. We can call that The Prophet Mohammed. No pun intended.
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And in America people sell baby parts to fund their illicit, criminal operations.
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It Takes a Pillage.
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GOOD JOB! You are right and we need more such successes.
A small measure of relief can be found in the return of several historical artifacts stolen from the Iraqi and Syrian people after plundering by ISIS.
Gigi D,
P.S. Moses didn’t insidiously, dangerously and falsely insinuate the Israelites into Egypt, presuming to be eligible to vote in the Egyptian’s country. Moses knew that Egypt was the nation of Egyptians.
Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, to the Promised Land, before the ink was dry on their
“Emancipation Proclamation.”
Moses was a truly great leader who provided freedom and the Israelites were self-reliant people.
Gigi D., the problem is the American country has been illegally invaded and the vote of Americans diluted. Foreigners, who have no constitutional standing and no right to vote, have been illicitly enlisted by liberals to overwhelm the vote and make America a “one-party” state. California already is. One-party control by the liberal collectivists is coming soon to a town near you. If “illegal aliens” were in demand as cheap labor for business, “guest worker” passes should have been issued – free foreigners who desire to work for free American business have that right (despite the protestations of liberal, collectivist union thugs).
“Guest Workers” not “voters.”
The Founders of America, a restricted-vote republic, wrote about restricting immigration to familiar and congruous people of similar background, culture, tradition, ideology, ethics, etc. who would be able to assimilate with facility.
The Founders warned against “Balkanization” or the fragmenting of America which would “change and corrupt” America confusing its character and personality and aligning it with foreign agendas.
The Founders admonished against “discordant intermixture” which will be “injurious” to America.
To wit:
Alexander Hamilton –
“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.”
“In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
Americans must re-implement the founding documents. Corrective action must be to rescind the vote and “citizenship” of all who circumvented the legal, constitutional immigration process originating in their home country, whether by unnecessary “asylum,” illegal “amnesty” or unconstitutional “amendment,” granting “guest worker” passes in “non-voting” status until compassionate repatriation is effected.
“Multiculturalism” is impossible and will not stand on its own. “Multiculturalism” must be propped up with artificial constructs, such as Affirmative Action, and is antithetical and unconstitutional racial bias.
The “injurious” disarticulation of America by “discordant intermixture” has gone on long enough.
Ben Franklin, 1789, “…a republic, if you can keep it.”
Ben Franklin, 2015, “…a republic, if you can take it back.”
I’m not sure returning the artifacts is a good idea–not now anyway. We should store them in a safe place and return them to Iraq when this blood thirsty war is over with–if it ever will be.
All records that been acquired point to and question Obama’s eligibility of citizenship. The last 7 years have proven his heart is not for the U.S., but for his own agenda. Yet, people keep supporting him. Why? Is it because people are afraid to admit they made a mistake in voting for this man?
The selling of the artifacts by ISIS only proves that they are not true Muslims, but radical and political murderers who are hiding behind the name of God, or Allah in this case.
They are out for blood and glory only, not to justify Allah–only themselves.
May God show them their true selves and may they repent for their sinful ways.
@forgetwhoiam: If Obama was born in 1961, then in 1968-70 he was 7-9 years old, making it pretty clear that it wasn’t he who filled out the application for the school. I award you minus one point for failing to check your work. To complete the irony circle I’m sure some a-hole will bring up your error 45 years from now as proof you couldn’t do math.
Karen S, All candidates should be asked questions about the Constitution. We don’t want a Constitutional Convention, because it opens the whole thing for rewrite.
Karen S.,
P.S. Ask him if he ever read and assimilated the Preamble, the essential American Context, to get a sense of just what it is we’re doing here.
Karen S., his birth site is completely immaterial. He is not a “natural born citizen” as the Constitution requires. His mother was only one parent as an American citizen. His father was a citizen of a foreign country. The Founders used:
Law of Nations, Book I, Chapter 19, § 212
“Natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens…it is necessary that they be born of a father who is a citizen.”
The Washington/Jay letter, 1785, raised the requirement from “citizen” to “natural born citizen” to put a “strong check” against foreign allegiances by the commander-in-chief.
All of the Founders spoke the French of Vattel, who was Swiss.
All Presidents followed the Presidential eligibility requirements of the Constitution for 219 years.
Obama broke the law.
The next time you hear someone claim that he is a Constitutional Scholar, ask him if he is sickened by the current nullified status and anemic condition of the foundational documents. If he’s not ailing and discontented, he’s not a Constitutional Scholar.
Abraham Lincoln illegally and criminally suspended the Preamble, Constitution and Bill of Rights. Those founding documents have carried no weight or force since Lincoln’s “Reign of Terror” Obama has ignored and controverted the Constitution. Two weeks ago, the judicial branch abused its power against the people , usurped the power of the legislative branch and “legislated from the bench,” bringing Lincoln’s nullification up to date.
The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is omnipotent and immutable…and entirely without fear.
Any “Constitutional Scholar” is by definition an HISTORIAN.
forgotwhoiam:
From claiming to be a foreign born citizen in his book, claiming to be Muslim in Indonesia, claiming to be Christian in the US . . . Obama appears to resemble Dolezal, Warren, et al in which he claims to have whatever attributes give him the best advantage for college entrance or career advancement.
Much of his upbringing was in Hawaii with his banker grandmother in a privileged life, so he had a lot to overcome to get any street cred as a community activist for minorities. He had to claim to be only Muslim, to fit in, in Indonesia, although technically having a Muslim father makes him Muslim in the eyes of Sharia Law no matter how he was actually raised. Then he focused on being Christian here in the US because that gave him the most political advantage. I don’t think his mother or grandparents were very religious.
He’s a chameleon, reinventing himself to take the most advantage rather than just picking an identity and sticking with it. (Let me add that I believe he was born in Hawaii.)
randyjet:
Plus it kept them from being destroyed. Many ancient structures were reused as building materials, so taking some pieces out of the country saved them.
My only concern is are we returning the artifacts to Iraq where they will ultimately be stolen again and/or destroyed by ISIS if its reach grows? That’s the trend. Perhaps it would have been a better idea to safeguard these artifacts by some international museum networks for safekeeping until ISIS has been removed. If extremists take over the country, more than they already have, they can be saved.
COMEDY OF ERRORS
– Indonesian Citizen – “…photographed the document in the office of the current headmaster of Santo Fransiskus Assisis, a Catholic school that Obama attended from January 1968 to December 1970 in Jakarta. The record shows that Obama…claimed to be an Indonesian citizen, that he took the last name Soetoro…his religion was…Islam…born in Honolulu.”
– Drug User – 1979 – Obama was a good but not outstanding student at Punahou, played varsity (not JV) basketball and, as he later admitted, “dabbled in drugs and alcohol,” including marijuana and cocaine. As for religion, Obama later wrote, because his parents and grandparents were nonbelievers, “I was not raised in a religious household.”
– Community Organizer – Chicago – 1985 – Obama accepted an offer to work as a community organizer in Chicago’s largely poor and black South Side. “…the job gave Obama “his first deep immersion into the African American community he had longed to both understand and belong to.”
– Illinois Project Vote – Obama/Soetoro engaged in “vote fraud,” attempts at manipulation of the vote directed “Illinois Project Vote, a voter registration drive aimed at increasing black turnout in the 1992 election…” (Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963… “These ——-, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference… I’ll have them ——- voting Democratic for the next two hundred years”. “Inside the White House” – Ronald Kessler).
– Obamacare – 2010
– ISIS, 2014 – “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Barrack Obama – Barry Soetoro.
********************
– July, 2015 – IRAN GETS NUKES
“Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” (JCPOA) – (Iran Nuclear Agreement)
********************
Crowd in Teheran, “DEATH TO AMERICA!”
“Arrogant US administration will not change” policy of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei.
“The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei stressed on Saturday that Iran’s foreign policy towards the “arrogant US administration will not change” and won’t be affected by the latest nuclear deal.” – Lebanese Communication Group
********************
– July 2015 – Plundered Relics Returned To Iraq
ONE OUT OF A HUNDRED AIN’T BAD.
The word is “artifacts”. I had my spelling wrong.
Doglover: It is a good thing that the British Museum has articacts from ancient Greece, Egypt et al. Otherwise the ISIS perps would destroy them all and there would not be such things for the world to see. So what if somene stole them in prior years. They preserved them.
I hate to defend British imperialism, but one of the most contentious items are the so called Elgin marbles from the Parthenon in Athens. Those were bought from the Ottoman Empire when it had control of Greece and the Greeks themselves had done nothing at all to preserve or keep them. The Brits followed the law when they acquired them, thus not stealing.
Good thing that US bombs didn’t touch any European, Japanese, Korean, or Vietnamese, Afghan, Iraqi, Libya, ancient architecture and artifacts. And all those ancient artifacts in the British Museum from around the world probably just floated into the museum by themselves. Surely they weren’t stolen from areas plundered by the British military.
Nice to read. However, we may need special forces to protect the history of Confederate soldiers engraved in Stone Mountain, Ga. The American Taliban/ISIS wants to destroy those images.
We need to cut off the sale of oil and gas by ISIS. Period.
We need to set forth a special day each month called Death To ISIS Day. The ISIS person is killed, their head cut off, and displayed in the farmers’ market in Cairo Egypt. The heads can be sold kind of like the tissue from abortions is sold for medical purpose and money and profit. We can call that The Prophet Mohammed. No pun intended.
And in America people sell baby parts to fund their illicit, criminal operations.
It Takes a Pillage.
GOOD JOB! You are right and we need more such successes.