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As
US Returns to
Mongolia a
Dinosaur By
UN, Action on
Syrian
Artifacts?
UNITED
NATIONS, May 6
-- There was a
dinosaur head
in the One UN
New York
Hotel across
from the UN on
Monday.
It
was not a
reference to
the UN
being out of
date and
unable to
reform itself.
It was the
"repatriation
ceremony" for
a 70 million
year old
Tyrannosaurus
Bataar, which
had been set
for auction in
New York last
May 20. Inner
City Press
photo here.
(Ironically,
an
internship in
the UN is
currently
being
auctioned,
with bids
taken
until May 14,
for now up to
$26,000 -
click here for
Inner City
Press' first
May 1 coverage
of this,
about which
the US and
certain other
Missions have
now been
asked.)
Preet
Bharara, US
Attorney for
the Southern
District,
explained how
Mongolia hired
a private
lawyer to stop
the auction.
Then US
Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement
got involved,
through its
offices
in New York,
Jacksonville,
Cleveland and
dinosaur-heavy
Caspar,
Wyoming.
Other
US returns of
cultural
heritage were
listed:
paintings
looted during
World War II
-- UN
alert! --
a dinosaur
egg, even
Saddam
Hussein's
AK-47.
But
would the US
work for
example on
returning
artifacts
being looted
from Syria,
today? Watch
this site.
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