Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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For almost a thousand years, Baghdad was the cultural capital of the Arab world, the most literate population in the Middle East. Genghis Khan’s grandson burnt the city in the 13th century and, so it was said, the Tigris river ran black with the ink of books. On Monday, the black ashes of thousands of ancient documents filled the skies of Iraq. Why?

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-4-2003_pg4_20