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60 Of Iraqi Historical Records Gone

Juan Cole 07/14/2004

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60% of Iraqi Historical Records Gone

Valentinas Mite of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty tells us more about the destruction of a substantial portion of Iraq’s archives.

Saad Iskandar, Director of the Iraqi Archives, is quoted as saying, ‘ “We lost about 60 percent of our state records and documents — they were either burned or damaged by water. [The lost documents belonged] to all the ministries, all departments of the state from the late 19th century up to Saddam’s period. As concerns books, I think we lost some 25 percent of them, mostly rare books, the most valuable books.” ‘

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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