The US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is investigating the origin of items displayed by renowned home wrecker, former swimsuit model, and CBS “journalist” Lara Logan.
Logan claims to have looted the “souvenirs” from bombed areas in Baghdad, which if true would be a violation of a US provision meant to “protect Iraqi heritage.”
In a video profile of the “60 Minutes” star called “Lara Logan’s Spoils of War,” mementos from Iraq and Afghanistan are shown in her Washington office.
“The prize pieces are . . . pre-Iraq invasion portraits of Saddam Hussein. In one [he's] shown in military fatigues. Logan told us she found it in pieces, in the ruins of the Olympic committee building after it was bombed,” reports Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable, the media industry publication that produced the online piece.
“A second portrait recovered from the ruins of a shelled palace in Baghdad shows a paternal Saddam surrounded by a group of adoring children, Hovering above the scene is the disembodied head of a stern-looking elderly woman . . . which Logan says is Saddam’s mother.”
Taking such items out of the country is considered theft under a federal provision designed to protect Iraqi heritage. One former Fox News engineer has already been prosecuted and placed on probation for smuggling paintings from Iraqi palaces. Other journos have been warned.
CBS News was apparently too busy writing pop-quizzes for Governor Palin and editing the answers to comment.
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