- WASHINGTON --(AFP) US President
George W Bush has been given a pistol Saddam Hussein had with him when
he was captured and now proudly shows it to selected guests, Time magazine
reported today.
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- The gun was taken from Saddam by US special forces when
they caught the ousted president in a spider hole near his home town Tikrit
last December, the report said.
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- The military had the pistol mounted, and it was presented
to the president privately by some of the troops who ferreted out Saddam,
Time said, citing unnamed sources.
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- Bush now takes select visitors to see the pistol in a
small study next to the Oval Office, the magazine said.
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- "He really liked showing it off," the report
quotes an unnamed recent visitor to the White House as saying. "He
was really proud of it."
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- Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol
was loaded when US troops grabbed Saddam, Bush has told visitors that the
gun was actually empty ñ and that it is still empty and safe to
touch, Time pointed out.
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