4. The Meetings

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Cultural Heritage Protection in Iraq before 2003: The Long View 4
7. 2. “Nobody Thought of Culture”: War-Related Heritage Protection in the Early Prewar Period 21
8. 3. Getting to the Postwar Planning Table 34
9. 4. The Meetings 56
10. 5. A Punctual Disaster: The Looting of the National Museum of Iraq 81
11. 6. The World Responds 101
12. 7. The Slow-Motion Disaster: Post-Combat Looting of Archaeological Sites 124
13. 8. Deathwatch for Iraqi Antiquities 136
14. Coda 153
15. Appendix: Interviews 159
16. Notes 161
17. Bibliography 189
18. Index 205