Books Spirited to Safety Before Iraq Library Fire

The NYTimes Reports On Alia Muhammad Baker, and her house full of books. . As the British forces stormed Basra in early April, she spirited the volumes out of the city’s Central Library, over a seven-foot wall, to the back room of a restaurant and then later into trucks to carry them to her home. Even friends and library employees have been enlisted as caretakers for troves of the books.