Brave honeymooners can rent a palace room and sleep in Saddam’s bed

A report at the link below says that Saddam Hussein’s bed awaits daring honeymooners as the former Iraqi dictator's palatial boudoir is being offered to newlyweds for £150 ($221) a night.

Some might think it macabre but Iraq is offering honeymooners the chance to spend their wedding night in Saddam Hussein’s bed.

As the country gingerly begins to revive a war-ravaged tourism industry, the former dictator’s bedroom is on offer for £150 a night in a presidential palace that is undergoing renovation in the town of Hillah, some 60 miles south of Baghdad.

With its Roman columns, chandeliers and gargantuan bathrooms, the palace is a striking example of excess, and one of several reserved for the exclusive pleasure of the dictator, who was deposed in 2003 and executed in 2006.

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