Ever wonder if Saddam is alive and well and living in Crawford? And he'll be trotted out only when it suits Rove?
I always thought that was tin-foil hat stuff. But this story from the Times (UK) won't make you put away the paranoia:
THE second wife of Saddam Hussein and his only surviving son are living in Lebanon under assumed names and receive a telephone call or a letter from the ousted Iraqi dictator at least once a week.
Samira Shahbandar, described by those who know Saddam as being the closest to him of his four wives, said in an interview with The Sunday Times that she had been given permission to live in France and expected to move to Paris next month.
She said that Saddam, who has a $25m price on his head, gave her $5m in cash and a hoard of jewellery and gold, and sent her over the Iraqi border into Syria. From there she travelled to Beirut, where she was provided with a Lebanese passport that gives her name as "Hadija".
The passport of Saddam's 21-year-old son Ali, whose arrogant manner suggests that he is used to being obeyed, states his name as "Hassan". Saddam's two elder sons Qusay and Uday, who terrorised Iraq, were killed by American forces during a siege of a house in Mosul. Their mother Sajida -- the dictator's first wife -- is thought to be in Syria.
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So where's Osama? At the Watergate?