Just a run-of-the-mill dictator

Here’s an odd part of Saddam Hussein’s legacy:

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.

There are 605 pages and now there’s debate about what to do with it.