Canada Free Press
Cover Story
Saddam's magic stone
By Judi McLeod
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Charleston, S.C.-- The Sun, a British tabloid that published
pictures of imprisoned, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
in his underwear may have missed something more intriguing
than Saddam's BVDs.
While the 'Butcher of Baghdad' has long been a stone around
the neck of his own people, it is ironic to consider that
sorcerers say he wears one of their stones around his own neck.
One of his palace-seers-for-rent pur****tedly made for
Saddam, a special talisman to keep the Grim Reaper at bay.
Some say it's a magic stone worn like a necklace. Others
contend he had it implanted under the skin on his arm.
Tyrants throughout history, including Adolph Hitler
maintained life long love affairs with the occult. Saddam's
mother, Sabha was a peasant woman who sometimes moonlighted
as a fortune-teller.
Saddam comes to the black arts naturally.
Incredibly, he once ordered Baghdad University to set up a
department of parapsychology when plain psychology may have
been more in order. The university's Saddam ordered
discipline of study was launched to investigate methods to
use in the Iran-Iraq war, and later to 'mind-read' UN
inspectors searching for WMDs in Iraq.
While some of us have aunties who read tea leaves, Saddam
"studied the sands", where he summoned up jinn (genies) to
do his bidding. Supposed to have inherited some of his
mother’s psychic gifts, Saddam was believed by many people
in Iraq to have seven jinn lined up for his personal
protection. According to these people, Saddam spoke daily
with the king and queen of the jinn, who actually advised him.
Saddam's emotionally unstable son, Uday also dabbled in the
occult. Uday once advertised on his own TV station, asking
magicians and psychics to come forward to dedicate their
services for the protection of the royal family.
An ardent believer in reincarnation, Saddam believes he's
the reincarnated King Nebuchadnezzar, whose legacy to the
world were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
But Nebuchadnezzar also restored religious monuments and
painstakingly improved canals. How the ancient king would
have felt about his reincarnation flooding the ancient
desert is a matter of speculation.
If genies let out of the bottle can be relied on for sage
military advice, it should surprise no one that Saddam
believes in flying saucers.
The things the deposed Iraqi leader believed in the UFO
realm could inspire a new science fiction cartoon strip.
Stories about Saddam and Ufology include one about his
housing extraterrestrial guests along with magicians in his
palaces. These extraterrestrial guests were aliens rescued
from a UFO that had crashed in the desert. As the story
goes, these aliens taught Saddam and his scientists some
awesome biotechnology.
While the free world was cloning Dolly the sheep, Saddam was
bioengineering a race of giant scorpions to be employed as
guard dogs outside weapons facilities. One ZAP from the
scorpions could also prove their reputation as killing machines.
Some conspiracy adherents will never shake the belief that
the Iraq war was really all about Saddam having access to
'stargates' to the so-called 'Planet X', or 'Nirbiru', a
planet beyond Pluto which is supposed to be the home of the
'Elohim', the angels.
Saddam counts on the power of the sorcerer's stone to make
it impossible for anyone, even the hangman to kill him. He
did survive several assassination attempts, including one by
Mossad, which rarely misses its target. The infamous Butcher
of Baghdad has ducked countless plots, emerged victorious
over palace revolts and escaped virtually unscathed from the
Iran-Iraq war, the first Gulf War and the second Gulf War.
The world's most famous prisoner is more the cat of nine
lives fame than he is the reincarnation of King Nebuchadnezzar.
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an
award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the
media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard
columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge
Re****t, Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily. Judi can be
reached at:
mailto:letters@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Clore
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