[SunkenCiv]

'Iraq will take all steps to get these antiquities and the Jewish archives back'

[luvbach1]

When did their ancestors steal them?

[FreeAtlanta]

You can't trust the modern stupid Muslim radicals not to destroy them. i.e. the Buddhas of Bamiyan

[Argus]

They want Jewish archives, just no actual Jews.

[Boogieman]

Just tell them, when they are ready to take the Jews back, they can have the Jewish archives back. That aught to shut them up.

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Jewish archives? Muslim territory since Noah. Actually, Adom. Muslims, all.

[ApplegateRanch]

Iraq was home to a large kidnapped Jewish community in ancient times, but 70 years later its members left en masse after the rebuilding of Jerusalem & the Temple of God by Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah...

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[colorado tanker]

found in the flooded basement of the intelligence headquarters in Baghdad in 2003

That tells you all you needed to know right there. These documents were not in a museum, but were in the possession of the secret police.

[John O]

Jewish Archives? Give them to Israel, the Jewish state.

Problem solved

[wildbill]

They probably are hoping they can find any few Jews left in Iraq through these documents. Why else would they care?