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the claim that Saddam donated 27 liters of blood in only a 2-year period; "The amount of donation allowed for a blood donor in the United States is five or six pints over the course of a year, or less than a gallon, Bianco said. At that safe rate, it should have taken
Hussein nine years to donate all that blood, not two. 'It's an incredible amount, if that is correct,' Bianco said. 'That certainly would have made him anemic.' "
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unverifiable claim that Saddam donated nearly 50 pints of his own blood for the writing of a Qur'an." Smucker also wrote: "Western diplomats based in
Baghdad are unimpressed with the Iraqi leader's religious devotion, dismissing the mosque and its holy book written in blood as a crude publicity stunt. 'How can we be sure this is Saddam's blood and not that of some of his victims?' one asked."
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Telegraph newspaper, saw reporter David Blair in Baghdad state on December 14, 2002 regarding Saddam's infamous Blood Qur'an. "In fact, a skilled artist copied the 605 pages of the holy book using Saddam Hussein's blood. The former Iraqi president donated three
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for helping him through many "conspiracies and dangers". He explained his reasons for commissioning the book in a letter published by the Iraqi state media in
September 2000: "My life has been full of dangers in which I should have lost a lot of blood ... but since I have bled only a little, I
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complex. Only invited visitors could view it, as the building was normally locked and off-limits. According to
Australian journalist Paul McGeough, who saw a page from the Blood Qur'an, "the blood lettering is about two centimetres tall and the broad decorative borders are dazzling ā blues, light
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to US-led forces in April 2003, the custodians of the mosque put the Blood Qur'an into storage for safekeeping. The death of Saddam left the Iraqi religious and secular authorities with the dilemma of what should be done with the relics of his rule. Ali al-Moussawi, a spokesman for the prime
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before his death. According to his version of events, over the course of two years, Saddam donated 24ā27 litres (50 to 57 pints) of his blood, which was used by Joudi to copy the 6,000 verses and some 336,000 words of the Qur'an. According to Joudi, Saddam
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was recovering from an assassination attempt, and asked him to write out the Qur'an from his blood as "a sort of vow from Saddam's side". The work was handed over to Saddam in a ceremony in
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