Yahoo! News - Baghdad crowd scorns Saddam's birthday with donkey fete
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Joyous crowds in Baghdad showed their scorn for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), mocking his birthday by dressing up a donkey as the fallen strongman and giving him a cake made of excrement.
"Today marks the commemoration of oppression and we will celebrate this anniversary every year," said Jaafar Saadun, the donkey's owner.
"We are no longer afraid for the first time in decades," said Saadun, speaking in the impoverished Sadr neighborhood formerly known as Saddam City, home to about two million Shiite Muslims.
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Joyous crowds in Baghdad showed their scorn for Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), mocking his birthday by dressing up a donkey as the fallen strongman and giving him a cake made of excrement.
"Today marks the commemoration of oppression and we will celebrate this anniversary every year," said Jaafar Saadun, the donkey's owner.
"We are no longer afraid for the first time in decades," said Saadun, speaking in the impoverished Sadr neighborhood formerly known as Saddam City, home to about two million Shiite Muslims.
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