Saddam Hussein's Fourth Book To Be Released

Posted on May 15, 2006

At last, the long wait is over: Saddam Hussein's fourth book will be released very soon. The book, "Akuma No Dance" - or Devil's Dance - will be published by Tokyo-based Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. Saddam apparently finished the novel write before the U.S. invansion. It follows his previous novel, Get Out, Damned One.

Chikaraishi said the manuscript was carried out of Iraq by Saddam's eldest daughter, Raghad, when she fled to Jordan just before the U.S.-led invasion was launched. Raghad has said previously her father finished the novel on March 18, 2003 - a day before the war began.
Chikaraishi said a first run of 8,000 copies of the 256-page Japanese translation would be printed, priced at $14.
It would be the first time the book would be published commercially, though a pirated version has been sold in Jordan, Chikaraishi said.
Saddam has been credited with writing three other books: "Zabibah and the King," "The Fortified Citadel" and "Men and a City."

Saddam's daughter Raghad has been absolutely tireless in her quest to get her father's novels published. In fact, she seems to have an inexhaustible supply of manuscripts -- who knew Saddam Hussein was so prolific? With all the beheadings, assasination attempts, the invasion of Kuwait and such, how ever did he find the time to write?