Iraqi libraries ransacked by Islamic State group in Mosul
BAGHDAD (AP) When Islamic State group militants invaded the Central Library of Mosul earlier this month, they were on a mission to destroy a familiar enemy: other people's ideas. Residents say the extremists smashed the locks that had protected the biggest repository of learning in the northern Iraq town, and loaded around 2,000 books including children's stories, poetry, philosophy and tomes on sports, health, culture and science into six pickup trucks. They left only Islamic texts. The So...
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