10 years after the US military found a trove of Jewish books, records and religious artifacts in the basement of Saddam's secret police headquarters in Baghdad, the USG is preparing to ship it back to Iraq.
The archive contains holy books, including a rare Bible from 1568, Torah scrolls seized from synagogues, and personal and community documents and records.
*The archive does not belong to Iraq, but was stolen from private homes, schools and synagogues
*Iraq itself does not have the resources to conserve and store the archive safely and should be made available to all peoples across the world.