"Iraqi Most Wanted" Deck of Playing Cards
date: label: date made
content: 2003
name: label: maker
content: The United States Playing Card Company
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Paper box with black graphics reading "Iraqi Most Wanted."
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: A deck of cards depicting the 52 most wanted Iraqis was first seen on 11 April 2003 when Brigadier General Vincent Brooks held up the deck at a press briefing in Qatar. The cards were designed "to provide a reminder of key Iraqi personnel of interest and to provide a recreational resource for troops in the field," according to the Department of Defense. "We try to have things that have dual usage whenever we can," said U.S. Army Major Randi Steffy, a Central Command spokesperson. Only a few days after the general introduced the cards, collectors started looking to acquire them. An initial print run of only a couple hundred decks was sent to Central Command in Qatar for distribution. The popularity and demand for the cards sent the Defense Department to an outside contractor, United States Playing Card Company, to reproduce the popular item.
place: label: referenced
content: Iraq
label: used
content: Iraq
topic: label: related event
content: Operation Iraqi Freedom
label: related event
content: Contemporary United States
label: related event
content: Operation Iraqi Freedom
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0170.09
label: accession number
content: 2004.0170
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0170.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Deck of Cards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (writing material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (wrapper material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9.144 cm x 6.604 cm x 1.778 cm; 3 5/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 11/16 in