Saddam's + 2 stone of immortality
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 1:26 pm
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The Mecury News wrote:UMM QASR, Iraq - 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 at point-blank range. The chicken's feathers fell off, but it lived.
So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper arm.
As the curtain falls on Saddam's reign, many ordinary Iraqis are reluctant to believe that their much-feared dictator has lost power, much less that he is actually dead. Stories abound of Saddam's mystical powers that have helped him elude assassination attempts and missile strikes.
"The stone makes him bulletproof," Ali, a slim man with a Saddam-style moustache, said in a serious voice.