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I removed a comment about about Americans filling sandbags with priceless relics, because:

it was inaccurate; the version given was the grossly distorted blogger version. In reality it was Poles, not Americans, they did it under supervision of museum staff, and it was an area already severely damaged by Saddam building tourist carparks and statues to himself;
the tone was POV;
they weren't sandbags but Hesco Concertainers (which are more like gabions), so no sandbags were involved anyway; and
it isn't appropriate for this article, which is about the technical merits of burlap bags, not political issues related to the occupation of Iraq.

Securiger 13:11, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Your last point is probably the most important. I am curious as to whether other contributors think about the inclusion of this information. Perhaps this information doesn't belong in this article. But I stand by its accuracy.
I did not get the information from grossly distorted blogs. I got the information from the BBC and the Guardian.
This Guardian article says ... thousands of tonnes of archaeological material used to fill sandbags and mesh crates... Perhaps the mesh crates are the Hesco Concertainers you referred to. But that gabions were filled does not contradict what I reported -- that valuable archeological items were used to fill sandbags.
This Guardian article says Due to security concerns, Iraqi experts were shut out, especially the people from the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) whom the coalition military probably saw as Ba'athist holdovers.