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Saddam On Finding A Good Wife

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[Saddam] was particularly phobic about germs. Even top generals summoned to meet him were often ordered to strip to their underwear and their clothes were then washed, ironed and X-rayed before they could get dressed to see him … [he] ordered mosques constructed around Baghdad on a scale not seen since it was the medieval capital of the Muslim caliphate [one] mosque held a Koran written with 28 gradually donated liters of Mr. Hussein’s blood … Some of his former American guards … said he acted in a fatherly way, offering advice on finding a good wife — “neither too smart nor too dumb, not too old nor too young”.

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