Saddam: "bewitching"
Judge Rizgar Amin, who was yesterday ordered to "go to hell" by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, today failed to show up at the Baghdad Court over which he presides.
Amin's wife and several close friends believe that he may have taken Saddam's words literally.
Mrs Amin told NMH, "Last night Rizgar was behaving very oddly. He started packing his suitcase with all kinds of clothes and other items such as his razor and toothbrush. When I asked where he was going he refused to answer, saying only, 'Somewhere very hot.'"
Dr Thomas Pennybacker, chief psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital in London, said this morning, "It is impossible to overstate the powerful hold that totalitarian leaders can exert over the minds of their subjects. This influence can persist even after the Dictator's fall from office."
Reports of a bewigged man digging furiously in a field on the outskirts of Baghdad are yet to be confirmed.
2005-12-09 @ 09:17