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As the U.S. military gains access to Saddam’s palaces, we see silk upholstered antique furniture, ornate wall carvings, marble, fine carpets and elaborate light fixtures on the nightly news. But these places aren’t where Saddam went to relax and have fun. Now U.S. soldiers have discovered Saddam?s “love nest,” and as one soldier says, “It’s shagadelic!”

The town house resembles the set of an Austin Powers movie, or maybe the Playboy mansion. There’s a mirrored bedroom featuring lamps with female torsos. The d

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We know that Saddam Hussein has often used identical stand-ins, but he has an American twin as well: Jerry Haleva, who has a lobbying firm called Sergeant Major Communications, and also doubles for Saddam. Haleva has played Saddam in “Hot Shots” and “Hot Shots Deux,” the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski,” and the 2002 HBO mockumentary “Live from Baghdad.” His film career started in 1989 when he worked for the legislature’s Republican minority leader. “The sergeant at arms saw this picture of Saddam addressing his troops,” he says. “But he copied the picture and passed it around the Capitol with the caption, ‘Now we know what Haleva does on his weekends.'”
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This astonishing and outrageous statement was translated from the Iraq News of Sunday, September 16. Saddam Hussein made the statement on Baghdad TV in Arabic on September 15:

?The event that took place in the United States was extraordinary. It is not a simple event?Since this event is unprecedented, is it wise to deal with it by the customary methods that can be used by whomever has the technical and scientific capacities of the United states and the West?
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