Iceland's First Lady - International Banking's Femme Fatale?

Given Zionists' penchant for falsifying history I wonder how much of the looting of artifacts connected with biblical sites is motivated less by money than by the desire to fabricate a historical record?

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More commonplace jars, vases and tablets will surely make their way toward the market, authorities predicted. They warned that traders might try to sell in the coming six months, while museums are working to compile a catalog of the newly looted items. In a rare display of unity, dealers are joining with archaeologists and curators to declare they will try to stop any trade in Iraqi objects.

An account of a prominent case in which an artifact was successfully returned to Iraq illustrates how unlikely such episodes are, however. In 1995 Shlomo Moussaieff, a prominent London collector, paid about $15,000 to buy a relief taken from the site of the spectacular seventh-century palace at Nineveh.

In a telephone interview, Mr. Moussaieff said he bought the slab, which shows slaves pulling a boat, in a warehouse in the free port at the airport in Geneva, Switzerland, where much art commerce is conducted. According to court documents, the seller was Nabil Asfar, a well-known Lebanese dealer, apparently based in Brussels.

Mr. Moussaieff took the relief to England and then applied for an export license to ship it to Israel. He sent a picture to the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, to see if curators there wanted to display it, according to newspaper accounts quoting his lawyer. The museum sent the picture for validation to John Malcolm Russell, an expert on Nineveh and now a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art.

Professor Russell said that he was soon shown pictures of two other fragments from the relief. He warned museum authorities that all of them had been stolen since he had seen the slab intact at Nineveh in 1989. English authorities reviewing Mr. Moussaieff's export request contacted experts at the British Museum, who recognized the relief from an article by Professor Russell. Scotland Yard alerted Iraqi authorities.

A suit brought by Iraq was settled when Mr. Moussaieff returned the relief and was reimbursed by the Baghdad government. Mr. Moussaieff maintained that he was unaware the piece had been stolen.

Professor Russell said he still did not know what had happened to the other pieces that he had been asked to examine, nor at least 10 other important stolen pieces he had identified. "They all just disappeared," he said.

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After reading the article, it does not show the first lady of Iceland to be much involved in the economic crisis that hit that country. Her husband promoted their banks, but that is what I would expect of any president.

Is it possible that the article is hiding the real nature of her involvement in the crisis, well that may be so, but I have not seen any article saying she did push for this bad policy or participated in this or that rotten deal.

In other words, I would give her the benefit of the doubt even if her father was a Zionist terrorist.