The Tale of Iraq's 'Cemetery of Books'

In the December Issue of Information Today, an article is published which is in fact the speech of Saad Eskander in Internet Librarian 2004 about the story of destruction of Iraqi national library and archive in 2003 and the Iraqis' efforts to rebuild their nationa library. It is worth reading or even translating to Farsi for a newspaper if somebody does.
You can read the full-text online here.