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Books by saddam hussein author of zabiba and the king. Nov, 2007 after confessing to slaughtering 180,000 kurds and plotting to build a doomsday nuke, saddam hussein was so upset when his fbi interrogator left for home that he cried like a baby. Zabiba is married to a cruel and unloving husband the united states who forces himself upon her against her will. Over ten years after his armies were routed in desert storm, the world continues to deal with, and be persistently thwarted, by the menace of saddam hussein.
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