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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (3668)	2/8/2004 11:14:32 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 3959

chinu. Guess ole sodom was a religious nut as well as many other things. Calligrapher forced to write Koran in blood AMMAN metimes.com Calligrapher Abbas Shaker Jawdah, renowned across the Arab world for his masterpieces, spoke this week about his worst commission ever – to transcribe the Koran in what he was told was the blood of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Now a refugee in Jordan with his wife and three children, Jawdah described how he fulfilled Saddam’s strange order, which came a few months after a failed assassination attempt against his eldest son Uday in 1998. “Saddam Hussein summoned me to the Ibn Sina hospital in Baghdad where his son Uday was recovering from an attempt to kill him, and asked me to write a copy of the Koran with his own blood,” he said. The gesture was meant as a measure of gratitude to God for sparing Uday – who was eventually killed with his brother Qusay in a raid by US forces in the northern city of Mosul on July 22 last year. Jawdah worked diligently for the next two years to reproduce the 114-chapter Koran in a 35-by-35 centimeter (14-by-14 inch) edition, subsequently displayed at the Om Al Maarek (Mother of Battles) museum in Baghdad.