Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders - guardian

Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur'an. ..... More, Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders