here is information about the organization that signed the agreement with the Hoover Institute
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Michael Cook <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It's a pity we have had some petty-minded responses from colleagues about the high-handed way the Americans have dealt with Iraqi archives.
http://www.iraqmemory.org/EN/
"According to the terms of the deal, Hoover has agreed to hold the records for the foundation for the next five years. At the end of that period, the two parties will examine the possibility of repatriating the documents to Iraq."
https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/node/387
here is the link to the Hoover Institution
http://www.hoover.org/hila
"It is essential that these documents be back among the Iraqi people," Kanan Makiya, founder of the Iraq Memory Foundation and an Iraqi-born professor of Middle East studies at Brandeis University, said in a recent interview with The Chronicle. "But," he added, "Baghdad is just not ready for it."
Richard Sousa, a senior associate director at the Hoover Institution, said the California library had received several pieces of correspondence between the Iraqi state and the Memory Foundation which showed that "this is something the government wanted them to do—to save [the documents] and hold them as a service to the government."
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/01/1335n.htm
Baghdad is just too dangerous for the documents, Mr. Makiya says — and not only that, the documents may be too dangerous for Baghdad.
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=m15z17nkvd9t3mb522xcfdpqjb97y87k Richmond, Va