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The Librarian Who Took On Al-Qaeda

By Red Wolf

4 September 2017

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Protecting one book is easy. Saving 377,000 fragile historic documents from gun-toting vandals hell-bent on erasing centuries of knowledge? That takes a different type of hero — via Neatorama

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