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...grabbed him at his house and sped him to Uday's farm, where he says he was tied to a palm tree for two days and repeatedly beaten. Uday branded him with a hot iron on his back and shoulder. Then one of the guards injected Abu Harith's arm with something that hurt; he still has a lump there. He was driven back to Baghdad and dumped near his home. When he fled to the Kurdish-controlled north, his suspicions were confirmed: he had been given thallium, a heavy metal used in rat poison that kills slowly through internal...
Trouble is, the man standing high above on that imposing podium is not Saddam Hussein. It's Ali Hassan al-Majid, the Saddam intimate foreigners have dubbed "Chemical Ali" for his role overseeing the 1988 poison-gas attacks that killed thousands of Iraqi Kurds. Al-Majid raises his right arm with palm open in the gesture Saddam uses, smilingly acknowledging the crowd's chants as if he were the ruler. "We sacrifice our blood, our souls for you, Saddam," the mob trills...
Still, if the project ever materializes, the lure for adventure sports junkies should be near irresistible. Imagine it: Extreme Golf, a surefire X-Games hit, where players are advised to carry a minesweeper along with their three wood, and a round really might cost an arm...
...male lion bit the arm of a 21-year-old zookeeper Sunday at Busch Gardens, severing it at the elbow... Zoo officials said they had not decided what to do with the lion." -The Associated Press...
...Amanda Bourassa was taking her family on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Busch Garden facilities when Max, the 12-year-old lion in question, took her arm off just below the elbow. He was already excited; Bourassa had just fed Max some red meat as part of a training exercise, and the lion may have smelled the meat on Bourassa's latex glove. She was standing behind a safety fence, but apparently wrapped a finger around one of the bars - an encroachment zookeepers are taught to avoid...