Jane O'Brien, 'The US archivist who saved the history of Iraq's Jews', BBC News, 9 November 2013
[...] For the next ten years, archivists worked to free pages that were stuck together, clean up the water damage and digitise the entire collection. "This archive highlights the work of the new Iraq," says Iraqi Ambassador to the US Lukman Faily. "It is a message to the world that the new Iraq is recognising the history of different cultures to further better understanding. This project articulates part of that history. "These artefacts were found in the basement of the intelligence agency - the police state of Saddam Hussein. We are no longer a police state. Our constitution stipulates that citizens of Iraq have all the rights, regardless of their ethnicity or religion."
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