Thursday, 10. April 2003
Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2003 at 6:50:36 PM CEST
Many citizens believe Saddam has mystical powers
Ahmed Ali believes Saddam Hussein can never die. All his life, the 23-year-old laborer has heard about the dictator's powerful stone.
Saddam, the story goes, had the stone made shortly after he came to power 24 years ago. Its powers were first tested inside a chicken. One of his soldiers pulled out a gun and shot a bullet at point-blank range. The chicken's feathers fell off, but it lived.
So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper arm.
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