Saddam the porn star
This cannot be true. Or can it? Either way, fun reading...

"Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been caught with his pants down -- literally. A shocking 1968 porn film has surfaced, in which the flamboyant strongman appears performing raunchy homosexual acts!"

(Love the exclamation mark, by the way.)

"Saddam's acting in the picture is actually quite good," al-Sabah notes. "One scene, in which he buries his face in a pillow and cries, is so touching you almost can forget you're watching a low-budget sexploitation film."

Link to the full story

It seems now the worst of the hostilities are over, people are starting to find humour in the whole Iraq situation. A bit like those situations where you nearly fall off a cliff, and then laugh with the relief at how close you nearly came to dying. The figure of fun most people seem to be getting their laughs out of (and this was true even when the shooting was still going on, admittedly), is the erstwhile Iraqi Minister of Information -- Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf -- who now has his own fansite, but also turned up on our NZ TV show 'Spin Doctors' last night (played by Mark Wright, not too badly to tell the truth, although someone should give Elizabeth Hawthorne some sort of award for her impersenation of Helen Clark's voice), and even a parodic news release issued by a wag at the Canadian Meteorological Service (which, unfortunately, I can't share with you). Quotable quotes? He had a bucketful of them...

"Yes, the american troops have advanced further. This will only make it easier for us to defeat them"
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