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As the head of the investigation into one of the greatest art crimes in recent memory — the looting of the Iraq Museum in 2003 — I have spent more than a decade attempting to recover and return to the Iraqi people their priceless heritage.1
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Matthew Bogdanos Thieves of Baghdad: One Marine’s Passion to recover the World’s Greatest Stolen Treasures (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005a).
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Bogdanos, C.M. (2016). Thieves of Baghdad: And the Terrorists They Finance. In: Charney, N. (eds) Art Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-40757-3_10
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