🚀 go-pugleaf

Oh blah blah blah. How powerful can he be? The guy just lost control of his
country.

Lush

"a familiar" <afam@owltwo.net> wrote in message
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> As US forces rolled into Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, the Ace of
> Spades in the US Army's deck of cards of wanted Iraqis, did a
> spectacular vanishing act. Many Iraqis believe their former leader,
> a lifelong dabbler  in the occult, will never be found by coalition
> troops scouring the country. His trick, they say, is a magic stone
> that protects him from harm.
>
> "Saddam never takes any step unless he consults with his
> magician advisers. I'm sure he has two or three with him now,"
> says Qassem Ali, an electrician in Baghdad.
>
> The most commonly held view in Baghdad is that Hussein wore
> a "magic" stone around his neck, which warded off assassins'
>  bullets.
>
> "It's all true about the magic stone," says car dealer Mokhaled
> Mohammed, sitting in a cafe on Baghdad's upmarket Arasat Street.
> "First of all, he put it on a chicken and tried to shoot it.
> Then he put it on a cow, and the bullets went around it."
>
> The interest in the occult was widespread in the regime.
> Hussein's vice-president, Izzat Ibrahim, was said to have
> brought a sect of seers and shamans, the Kaznazani, from
> his native northern district of Iraq and housed them in
> Baghdad.
>
> from:
> http://csmonitor.com/2003/0806/p01s04-woiq.htm
>