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Intel: US returns Baath Party archives to Iraq

After 15 years in the United States, millions of government documents from the Saddam Hussein era have returned to Iraq.
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A US military cargo plane arrived in Baghdad on Monday carrying more than 6 million pages of Iraqi government records dating from the Saddam Hussein era and prior.

The papers, including intelligence files and administrative records, were discovered in a basement under the Baath Party headquarters in the Iraqi capital in 2003 before being transferred to the United States for safekeeping in 2005.

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