Now, John Sweeney reports in the Observer that Sadaam inflates the numbers supposedly killed by sanctions not just with air, and with people he killed himself, but with fake mass baby funerals.
Small coffins, decorated with grisly photographs of dead babies and their ages - 'three days', 'four days', written usefully for the English-speaking media - are paraded through the streets of Baghdad on the roofs of taxis, the procession led by a throng of official mourners.
There is only one problem. Because there are not enough dead babies around, the regime prevents parents from burying infants immediately, in the Muslim tradition, to create more powerful propaganda.
The taxi drivers do what they are told - as everybody does in Saddam's Iraq - to their evident disgust.
It gets even sicker. You were warned...
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