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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts Class Code_DB2 As Morgan Stanley's chief AsiaTo save precious centuries old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Oceans Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu