So this is how Saddam expected to defeat the infidels

[xfer]

Saddam’s eccentricities included an interest in the occult. Bashir said that a few years ago Saddam set up a secret facility for people with special powers. A young boy from Kirkuk, for example, apparently had the ability to see through walls. He and his family were brought to Baghdad to live, but the boy’s powers began to diminish and then subsided altogether. A woman with a gift for telepathy turned out to be more useful. When Hussein Kamal defected to Jordan, she was asked to concentrate on making him return to Iraq. He did so, and was killed immediately. Bashir said that the story of the telepathic woman is the only one he knows of that explains why Hussein Kamal would have been so crazy as to come back home.

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030505fa_fact

 

[azal]

superman is to kryptonite as little boy with seeing-through-wall powers is to cities that smell like shit camels and greasy mustaches.