One of the contributors to a newsgroup I frequent saw the picture and posted "I think they just captured Gandalf."...
Elsewhere, someone opined that that couldn't be the "real" Saddam because the beard was too long to have grown that fast. He was promptly shot down by another poster who had, upon leaving the army, sworn never to shave again but gave up when his beard got completely out of hand - just about that quickly...
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Date: 2003-12-18 12:32 am (UTC)Elsewhere, someone opined that that couldn't be the "real" Saddam because the beard was too long to have grown that fast. He was promptly shot down by another poster who had, upon leaving the army, sworn never to shave again but gave up when his beard got completely out of hand - just about that quickly...