The rush to Baghdad was about time travel

Does man have a right know his own history?

The money-cult of corporate fundamentalists that have hijacked the world doesn’t think so and it conducted the Iraq wars in a manner that ensured some crucial historical factoids may never hit the marketplace of ideas.

Abandoning previously successful military strategy the U.S. armed forces basically ignored the majority of Iraq and hustled straight to Baghdad with one unspoken primary objective that manifested with the late April looting of the museum there. In what has been called an “inside job” by investigating U.S. military personnel, some 50,000 priceless artifacts, some dating back 7,000 years, were lifted from Iraq’s national museum.

Reports Jim Marrs in his latest book, The Terror Conspiracy, “In an interview published in the January/February issue of Archeology, Col. Bogdanos was asked what is still missing from the Iraqi National Museum. He replied ‘You have the public gallery from which originally 40 exhibits were taken. We recovered 11. Turning to the storage rooms, there were about 3,150 pieces taken from those, and that’s almost certainly by random indiscriminant looters. Of those, we’ve recovered 2,700. About 400 of these pieces remain missing. The final group is from the basement. The basement is what we’ve been calling the inside job. And I will say it forever like a mantra: it is inconceivable to me that the basement was breached and the items stolen without an intimate insider’s knowledge of the museum. From there about 10,000 pieces were taken. We’ve recovered 650, approximately.”

Many of these artifacts were from 2002 and 2003 digs spearheaded by French and German archeologists. They had reportedly unearthed goodies from the tomb of Gilgamesh, “the ancient Mesopotamian king who claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human.” Clay tablets in the tomb, more than 2,000-years-old, reportedly documented the king’s quest for immortality. Using hypermodern technology, archaeologists discovered the tomb in the middle of the Euphrates river. It was said to contain “astonishing” artifacts.

Reports Marrs, “Recent scientific studies into heretofore unknown monatomic (single atom) elements have linked these discoveries to ancient writings from Mesopotamia and Egypt. Some scientists claim such elements may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of anti-gravity, longevity, limitless free energy, faster than light propulstion systems, teleportation and even the possibility of inter-dimensional and time travel.”

Marrs holds that establishment press reports depict what clearly was a well-orchestrated and organized scheme to heist Gilgamesh’s goods.

“According to an Associated Press report, the thieves had keys to the museum and its vaults,” Marrs reports. “McGuire Gibson (of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and president of the American Association for Research in Baghdad) said what appeared to be random looting actually was a carefully planned theft. ‘It looks as if part of the theft was a very, very deliberate, planned action,’ he said. ‘They were able to obtain keys from somewhere for the vaults and were able to take out the very important, the very best material. I have a suspicion it was organized outside the country. In fact, I’m pretty sure it was.’”

Display cases were emptied without being broken and artifacts of such mass they each required a forklift to be moved were spirited away.

Marines were called in to thwart the looting while it was happening and reportedly made a superficial, cursory effort before being ordered to return to their primary assignment, protecting the Ministry of Oil.

Outraged that their warnings that such an event could transpire went unheeded, three members of the White House Cultural Property Advisory Committee promptly resigned.

The destruction wrought during the first Iraq war and the economic sanctions that followed it ensured that the museum was closed to the public throughout the decade between the wars. This means that the archaeologists involved in museum projects, such as the exploration of Gilgamesh’s tomb, effectively operated largely in secret.

The stolen artifacts may or may not essentially be keys to understanding human existence and much more. If they are, that understanding could well be forever relegated to the inner circle of one of the many secret societies that form the money-cult that now rules the world.

That cult knows exactly what it is doing, that he who controls the past, controls the future.

--George Hayduke