Man arrested for possessing a buttock of Saddam [View all]

[muriel_volestrangler]

A man in England has been arrested for possessing part of a statue of Saddam Hussein — one half of his buttocks, more accurately “a buttock” — which is a violation of the 2003 Iraq Sanctions Order prohibiting the importation of “Iraqi cultural property,” British authorities claim in a story by the Guardian.

The man was apparently working for former elite forces soldier, Nigel “Spud” Ely of the SAS, who said he saved the piece from being melted into scrap metal after he saw the statue being toppled by U.S. Marines in Baghdad in 2003.

The man who was arrested had been trying to find a buyer for the war relic, authorities told the Guardian:

As well as expressing shock at the arrest, Ely described the Iraqi authorities’ claim to be rightful owners of the bronze as “like the Elgin Marbles with attitude”.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/hottopics/2012/01/20/man-arrested-for-possessing-a-buttock-of-saddam/