🚀 go-pugleaf

nah, he just found a few good "hiding places". 


afam@owltwo.net (a familiar) wrote in message news:<666sc28y7gter87GHG@owltwo.net>...
> 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