Iraq has rejected an American offer to return half of the Iraqi Jewish Archive previously transferred from Baghdad to the US

Archiving Jewish materials found soaking in sewage water at a basement of a Saddam Hussein’s secret police building. Photo: Press TV
“The (Tourism and Antiquities) minister Lewa’ Smeisim refused an American offer to give back half of the Jewish Archive to Iraq, on condition that Iraq will concede its right of possessing the remaining half,” the state-run al-Sabah newspaper quoted Smeisim’s chief media office Hakim al-Shammari as saying. Continue Reading »












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