The lead American investigator of the looting of Iraq’s National Museum says that more than 10,000 artifacts are still missing. “What we are finding is well known and otherwise respected members of the art community are in fact authenticating stolen pieces for a fee. The second point of this is many of these items are either destined for less scrupulous museums or art dealers or are placed with art dealers in transit, as the middle location. We need the art community first to stop that.”