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FBI Takes Possession of Looted Iraqi Artifacts

In January, a Marine gave an FBI agent in Pennsylvania eight small objects he'd brought home from Iraq. They were 5,000-year-old stone seals that had been looted from a site near Babylon. The FBI says it's the first recovery by its agents in the United States of looted cultural property from Iraq. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

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