(London Times) Catherine Philp - "Open your books and turn to page four," the teacher instructed the pupils. Obediently they flicked through the pages until they reached the familiar photograph of a smiling Saddam Hussein standing in front of an Iraqi flag. "Now rip it out," the teacher said. With the fall of the old regime has come the purging of Saddam from the national curriculum. "I felt very sad when they made us rip out his pictures and all the other things about him. As we read in the books, he did good things. That's why I still love him," said Atta Jamal, 12.
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