18 Aug 2003

 
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US Unveils New Secret Weapon

In a scheme likely to raise as many laughs among Iraq's hardline Islamic clerics as Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, troops of the 4th Infantry brigade in Tikrit are planning to put up pictures around the town of Saddam's face superimposed on the bodies of a busty Veronica Lake, a slinky Zsa Zsa Gabor, a grooving Elvis and British-born rocker Billy Idol.

The aim, apparently, is to so enrage Saddam's followers that they will draw themselves out.

Q sez there were news reports, earlier in the war, of vans with loudspeakers driving through Baghdad calling the hiding fighters 'girly men' in Arabic. Apparently this enraged them and they'd come out shooting...

See the pictures here...