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Bookish: UNDER SIEGE (3#) -

# About a couple of dozen Iraqi security soldiers have seized the building of Iraq's National Library, according to its director, Saad Eskander. He fears this will make it a military target, endangering the staff and the collections. [guard]

# Updated: Iraqi Military Storm Nat'l Archive.

# Peter Millar shares with us a nicely written book review of Spook Country by William Gibson, who will appear at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Monday, August 27th at 7pm.

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