Saddam Hussein Had Qur’an Written in His Blood

[The Straight Story]

Saddam Hussein Had Qur’an Written in His Blood

It took three years and 57 pints of his own blood for Saddam Hussein to have a special copy of the Qur’an printed, and today, no one in Iraq knows exactly what to do with it.

Saddam commissioned the work on his 60th birthday in April 1997 and took possession of the completed product in September 2000. “My life has been full of dangers in which I should have lost a lot of blood,” he explained, “but since I have bled only a little, I asked somebody to write God’s words with my blood in gratitude.”

The blood-inscribed 605-page holy book now sits locked away in a Baghdad mosque. Sheikh Ahmed al-Samarrai, head of Iraq’s Sunni Endowment fund, says the special Qur’an is worth millions of dollars, but could also stir more trouble than it’s worth, if revealed to the public.

The Iraqi government today is dominated by the Shia majority, and wants nothing from Saddam’s past to rekindle the spirit of the Ba’ath Party (that now is outlawed) or energize any Sunni loyalists determined to recapture control of the country.

Abbas Shakir Joody al-Baghdadi, the calligrapher who transcribed the Saddam Qur’an, now lives in Virginia.


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[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. They should've taken all 57 pints at once.

But I do remember hearing this back in the day.

I kinda blew it off as just another incubator story.

[The Straight Story]

5. Now if he had a Necronomicon written in blood, that would be cool :) (nt)

[lunatica]

2. If they don't know what to do with it then put it on eBay

They could probably make a killing with it.

[Lint Head]

3. GWB should eat it page by page. It represents the same blood

lust that brought about the torture and deaths of innocent people. In the past the conquerer would consume the heart or drink the blood of the vanquished. Bush and Cheney loved death and killing so much it would be the appropriate thing to do. One murderer eats the blood of the other.

[Vickers]

4. That thing must smell awful. n/t

[GeorgeGist]

6. Urban legend ...

I suspect.