U.S. Military Forces Have Damaged Babylon, Iraq Official Says

4-30-08
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=arlG9bOWRlsM&refer=home

U.S. military forces and their allies in Iraq have damaged archeological sites including Babylon by setting up bases, using heavy equipment, filling sandbags and digging trenches, said an adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

At an impromptu press briefing organized by the British Museum in London today, the adviser, Bahaa Mayah, showed slides of the military presence at about a dozen sites. While the Babylon site has now been vacated by U.S. and Polish forces, he said, "we cannot reverse'' the damage done.