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London paper claims to have received faxed note from Saddam

My colleague Paul Demko, curator/beefcake-boy of TCB's Live Nude Weblog!, sends along news that an Arabic newspaper in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, is publishing a letter from Saddam:

The one-page message contains a reference to "betrayals" that led to the US military victory, an appeal to Iraqis to cast aside any differences and a warning that US-installed leaders will not bring them freedom.

Here is the translated text of that letter, from the Middle East Media Research Institute website.

According to this ITV (UK) report, Al-Quds Al-Arabi's editor, Abdel Bari Atwan, thinks the letter is real.

And here's the just-posted AP wire story.