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Iraq hails Saddam's 'second novel'
CNN.com ^
| 12/20/01
| Reuters
Posted on 12/21/2001 7:05:58 AM PST by jalisco555
Edited on 04/29/2004 1:59:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) -- A new novel just published in Iraq, combining romance and Iraqi politics after the Gulf War, is widely believed to be the second book written by President Saddam Hussein.
Al-Qala'ah al-Hasinah ("The Fortified Castle") appeared this week in bookshops and all public libraries in Baghdad and was hailed on state-run television and by the newspaper al-Jumhouriya as a "great artistic work."
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I wonder if he'll be doing a book signing at our local Barnes & Noble?
To: jalisco555
No doubt the book passed muster of the Iraqi book critics .... ROTLMAO.
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posted on
12/21/2001 7:07:43 AM PST
by
mgc1122
To: jalisco555
"I wonder if he'll be doing a book signing at our local Barnes & Noble?"
LOL! I got that one....
Over 700 pages? Yeah, it's by that ego-maniac Saddam alright. I've got a better title for his next book "DESPOT, or How I Built Palaces on the Bodies of my People" or maybe he can create a detective character named "VX Warwhoreski" (Christine Amanpour can play her in the movie), who discovers that the VX attacks on Kurds and Iranians were actually the work of the ISRAELIS!
To: jalisco555
"The SCUD Missle In The Rye?"
To: Frances_Marion
I thought his most imaginative fictional work was titled, "There are no nuclear, biological or chemical weapons being developed in Iraq."
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posted on
12/21/2001 8:04:57 AM PST
by
jraven
To: jraven
HA! That's great!!
Sequel to "Al Queda on the Western Front"? I smell a mini-series.
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posted on
12/21/2001 8:40:12 AM PST
by
Hungover
To: Hungover
Is that before or after I Rack Up the Oil Revenues While My People Starve ?
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posted on
12/21/2001 9:01:11 AM PST
by
a_witness
To: Hungover
<:D. Good one, H. "From the author who brought you 'A Fatwah to Arms', and 'At Play in the Oilfields of Allah' comes...."
To: jalisco555
"It was a dark and stormy night...as I watched JDAMs turn every one of my presidential palaces into twisted rubble."
To: denydenydeny
Or his critically acclaimed "VX VII"(with apologies to Leon Uris)
To: dighton
I wonder if the pages are 'dusty'.
To: jalisco555
Saddam a writer of trashy romance novels?
I need a drink. That's just too weird.
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posted on
12/21/2001 11:14:24 AM PST
by
Redcloak
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