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    1. [KYCLAY] THOUGH AT BREAKFAST
    2. jess wilson
    3. THOUGH AT BREAKFAST By Jess Wilson While eating breakfast this morning I happened to glance at a headline on a story about the search for possible remains of the President Saddam Hussein in the rubble of a megaton bomb blast. Their hope was to identify even a stain of blood as his by a DNA test. I had the thought: how did they obtain the sample where by they were able to know what his DNA looked like? Then it was that I recalled reading a story about a white man in Africa during colonial days that had caused the natives to hate him and wish to harm him by witchcraft. He had been ever so careful that no native get any clippings of his hair or fingernails and use the clippings in making a voodoo doll in his image. If they were able to make such a voodoo image they would spit on it and stick pins in it forming, as they believed, a magic torture. The natives succeeded in getting bits of his hair by straining the water that flowed from a waste water pipe when he shaved. I wondered if the intelligence agents of the United States had used such a device to obtain Hussein`s DNA.

    06/24/2003 11:11:30