Monday 28 June 2010

Abdul-Aziz Al-Jumeili, an Iraqi poet and author appeared on TV the other day and related his 4-year detention in prison, first at Abu Ghraib, near Baghdad, then removed to Kuba Prison nicknamed by its inmates for its horror, Ivan the Terrible Prison. Part of Abdul-Aziz's torture, like that of the Marquis de Sade in prison, was his deprivation of stationery, and because, like the Marquis de Sade, he was a compulsive writer, Abdul-Aziz, like the Marquis de Sade, resorted to writing on his underwear where he composed in classical Arabic metric verse, a 600-line of Mohammed's biography

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