EXHIBITION AT IRAQ NATIONAL MUSEUM DRAWS CRITICISM

A section of Baghdad’s Iraq National Museum was opened for two hours on Thursday, The Independent‘s Patrick Cockburn reports. Apparently intended to demonstrate that US authorities care about Iraqi culture and that life in the capital is returning to normal, the brief exhibition does not seem to have been a success. Machine-gun fire was heard in the streets during the viewing, and American archaeologists have accused the authorities of putting the works on display at risk.