This afternoon (May 2), Time magazine announced that its special issue on the killing of Osama bin Laden will be marked with a bloody red “X.”  The marking will be the fourth inTime’s 88-year history. This follows a tradition begun by founder (1923) Henry Luce with Adolf Hitler (May 7, 1945), and continued by 2001-2006 managing editor Jim Kelly with the capture of Saddam Hussein (April 21, 2003) and the killing of bin Laden lieutenant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (June 21, 2006). - Minonline

Qur’an etched in Saddam Hussein’s blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders As country debates whether to destroy everything connected to former dictator, Shia-led regime remains sensitive about relics It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur’an. The Guardian

Qur’an etched in Saddam Hussein’s blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders

As country debates whether to destroy everything connected to former dictator, Shia-led regime remains sensitive about relics

It was etched in the blood of a dictator in a ghoulish bid for piety. Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur’an.

The Guardian