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World

Great Saddam's Ghost!

Jesse Walker | 1.2.2007 5:06 PM

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India Daily says a dead dictator may be haunting Baghdad, as the Elvis of Baathism follows his execution with cameos "in restaurants, markets and so on." Its reporter reassures us that "None of these possible ghost sightings are confirmed by any reliable sources or Iraqi authorities."

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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