Saddam Hussein's Novel to Be Published

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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4737051

Saddam Hussein's Novel to Be Published

Saddam Hussein’s family will publish next week a novel written by the ousted Iraqi leader before the US-led war on Iraq, his daughter said today.


Ekhroj minha ya mal’un whose title could be translated into Get out, damned one, tells the story of a man called Ezekiel who plots to overthrow a town’s sheik, but is defeated in his quest by the sheik’s daughter and an Arab warrior.

The story is apparently a metaphor for a Zionist-Christian plot against Arabs and Muslims. Ezekiel is meant to symbolise the Jews.


Raghad Saddam Hussein said her father finished the novel on March 18, 2003 – a day before the US-led war on Iraq began – and had expressed a wish to publish the book under his name. The three other novels he wrote were simply signed Its author.

“It was my father’s will to publish this book,” Raghad said.

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1. I'll bet it is a best seller in the Middle-East and when translated

...into English and published here it will be a best seller in America.

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2. Did Ed Klein ghostwrite it?

just askin'.

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3. I'd bet he has a lot to say

the publisher's bldg. will probably be bombed