"Alas! Alas! Alas!" Holding a roll of film from the burned-out rubble of the Baghdad Cinema Studios, Iraqi actor Sami Kaftan, laments the destruction of years of cultural heritage and history. Grabbing two fistfuls of ruined film, "Is this Iraqi cinema? Is this our heritage? One can take revenge on a regime, but why take revenge on culture?"
A young American soldier sits atop a tank under the archways of the looted Iraqi National Museum, waving to the camera.
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