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According to Ahmed al-Rahim, Harvard’s preceptor in Arabic, tight restrictions on the availability of books and scholarly journals imposed on Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s 25-year regime, especially since the last Gulf War, prevented Iraqi academics from keeping up with developments in their fields...
...Al-Rahim said that the biggest contribution Harvard could make is to donate duplicate books to universities in Iraq, and to organize an exchange program for Iraqi and American librarians...
...Al-Rahim, who said Friday that he had not yet heard of the planned initiative, added that Iraqi libraries need to be made more “user friendly” and conducive to foreign academic research...
Iraqi manuscripts would be priceless resources to Western researchers, according to al-Rahim, if they were made available and properly catalogued...
...Al-Dandani had fought against U.S. forces inside Afghanistan until the fall of the Taliban. He was close to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the organizer of the 9/11 attacks currently in U.S. custody. After his return to Saudi Arabia, officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba 'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. Al-Dandani took over the Persian Gulf command after al-Nashiri and Ba 'Attash were captured in separate incidents, say U.S. officials...