U.S. soldiers found documents and maps relating to Israel during a search for an ancient Jewish text in Iraq. The soldiers, members of a mobile team that has been searching for banned weapons in Iraq, found maps Tuesday that indicated where Iraq thought Scud missiles had landed during the 1991 Gulf War, The New York Times reported.
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