Jewish archive among materials sought by Iraq

BAGHDAD - Iraq's national archive has asked the United States to return millions of historical documents seized by US troops in the mayhem that followed the US invasion in 2003, along with its Jewish archive.

The papers include intelligence reports on Iraqis kept by Saddam Hussein's dreaded secret police, detailed plans for massacres of his regime's enemies and information on weapons arsenals, said Saad Eskander, director of the Iraqi national library and archives.