Saddam's Koran-written in blood

[SFG75]

Interesting aricle on his Koran that he commissioned to be written in his own blood. Ewwwww!

It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur'an.

Wow, I would've picked a shorter book.

 

[sparkchaser]

Intersting article. Thanks for posting, SFG.

It is the one part of the ousted tyrant's legacy that Iraq has simply not known what to do with.

Hell, I'll take it off of their hands.

 

[eclair]

He should have used the blood of a virgin/tears of a small child. He let down the tyrant fraternity.