Yes, a very funny article which is no sense at all true. Except in that it manages to tickle the funny bone very well. :)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/930825.asp
Saddam Nabbed Buying Potter Book
CIA captures former Iraqi strongman at Topeka Barnes & Noble
NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE
June 24 — CIA agents secretly nabbed Saddam Hussein at midnight last Friday while the former Iraqi dictator was waiting in line at a Topeka, Kan., Barnes & Noble bookstore. Saddam was waiting to buy the just-released Harry Potter book, the spy agency revealed today.
HUNDREDS OF CUSTOMERS were waiting outside the store for the midnight release of the book, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” little suspecting that the brutal dictator was in their midst.
But a sharp-eyed seven-year-old, Gavin Dineen of Topeka, positively identified the Iraqi madman waiting in line to buy the hotly anticipated J. K. Rowling book. “Mommy, I think that’s the ace of spades,” Gavin reportedly told his mother, who quickly notified authorities.
While White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that President Bush was “pleased” by the capture of Saddam in Topeka, intelligence experts were holding off celebrating until they could determine whether the man they had in custody was in fact Saddam or merely one of his ten thousand-plus look-alikes.
The mustachioed despot has been known for dispatching his doubles to retail outlets around the world to procure the latest books, CDs and DVDS.
Two weeks ago, a Saddam look-alike was spotted at a Ticketmaster in Ft. Myers, Fla., buying tickets to the upcoming Justin Timberlake/Christina Aguilera summer tour.
In other Iraq news, today interim administrator L. Paul Bremer announced that he “finally had some good news to report.” Bremer said that while the process of reconstruction in Iraq remained slow, the good news was that he had just saved a bundle on his car insurance by calling GEICO Direct.
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Andy Borowitz won the 2001 Dot-Comedy Award for Best Humor Columnist on the Net and is the author of the forthcoming book, ‘Who Moved My Soap? The CEO’s Guide to Surviving in Prison.’ His Web site is www.borowitzreport.com
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