Donny George ridicules statement by "Iraq’s top archaeologist" that there's no more looting

Several days ago The Art Newspaper reported that"The leading archaeologist in Iraq says that sites are no longer being targeted by professional looters." The paper cited statements made in the course of an interview with Dr. Abbas al-Husseini, the successor to Donny George as the head of Iraq's state board of antiquities. Abbas later was fired.

This week Donny George used the IraqCrisis list to blast his successor:

This man has never been an archaeologist, then how he could become the top Iraqi archaeologist, all the matter is that when they (the minister of tourism and antiquities)wanted to remove me from the position because of my faith, the only one they found from their own party with a PhD was Abbas, so they brought him to the position, and he was removed after only one year not because of political reasons, but because they understood he knew nothing and embarrassed them in so many cases during that year, and this information is from the adviser for the minister of Tourism and Antiquities, bringing Abbas to that position was the sharpest decline in the history of the SBAH in Baghdad.