Saddam the novelist

[T_i_B]

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/17/wbook17.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/12/17/ixportaltop.html

Iraq's tyrant spent weeks before the war writing a novel about underground resistance, reports Jack Fairweather

Saddam Hussein spent the final weeks before the war writing a novel predicting that he would lead an underground resistance movement to victory over the Americans, rather than planning the defence of his regime.

As the war began and Saddam went into hiding 40,000 copies of Be Gone Demons! were rolling off the presses.

The narrative meanders through the history of Iraq from Biblical times to the present and is filled with paranoid invectives against the Jews, who delight in inciting troubles between Muslim nations and encouraging the Romans - a synonym for the Americans - to attack Iraq.

[thebigidea]

1. oh man! I'd love to read this. Somebody better translate it

This is hilarious! I've guessed that he's probably been taking his aggressions out on a typewriter for months... I'm damn amused to be right!

[wheresthemind]

2. I'd like to see him write his memoirs....

I think it would be interesting to get inside Saddam's head and see what he is thinking... Also I'd be curious to see what he has been doing since the fall of Baghdad.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. Didn't he also write a romance novel

a couple of years ago, or did I dream it?!

[Roon]

4. several, I think

And he wrote a play.

[sistersofmercy]

5. He also wrote plays