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April Fool by Saddam's son taunts Iraqis IRAQIS were promised an increase in food rations yesterday only to find it was an April Fool joke.

The newspaper Babel, run by Uday Hussein, elder son of Saddam Hussein, announced a generous rise in portions of meat and chicken available under the rationing system in force since sanctions were imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

It also said that BMW cars ordered in the 1980s were finally on their way to Iraq. Students were told they would all be given pass grades in end-of-year exams. It was only on the last page of the newspaper that an insert warned readers not to be fooled.

The Iraqi government played the same hoax on its people on April 1 two years ago when an official newspaper pledged that they would receive bananas, chocolate and soft drinks in their rations.

The Syrian newspaper Tishrin carried a hoax report that the 20 per cent jobless would receive a monthly payment of £40 pending a programme to fight unemployment. The paper said this would be financed by recovering £35 billion stolen from state coffers and placed in foreign bank accounts.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

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he sounds like he has the same warm jovial manner of his father, eh?

and to think that when we finally see the end of Saddam we have HIM to look forward to! Crap never ends, no matter where ya are.....;)

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2001