“As it happened, most of what the media had reported about the museum looting [after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003]…turned out to be false. …Though press reports commonly reported 170,000 items stolen, [Marine Colonel Matthew] Bogdanos discovered that only a tiny fraction of that was actually looted. Somewhere between 3,000 and 15,000 items were later proved missing from the museum collections.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 477