# Allawi is following in Saddams footsteps.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allawi-is-following-in-saddams-footsteps/255468>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 16, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allawi-is-following-in-saddams-footsteps/255468 "2004-07-16T19:14:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Zagadka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zagadka/32/7272_2.png) [@Zagadka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zagadka)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allawi-is-following-in-saddams-footsteps/255468/21 "2004-07-17T14:34:36Z")

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> [@clairobscur](#):
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> Hijack :
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> I believed that arabic characters couldn’t be used on this board. Did you copy/past them, or did you type them?

Copy and pasted. I couldn’t find any online translators quick enough, so that actually says something like, “This translation service is no longer free, we now require a subscription”

As a side note, I know you can type in Cyrillic on this board, so Arabic should be doable, too., if you have the keyboard setup. May not display correctly in some peoples’ browsers, too.

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**Author:** ![Somnambulist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Somnambulist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Somnambulist)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allawi-is-following-in-saddams-footsteps/255468/22 "2004-07-19T11:47:17Z")

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> [@Ryan\_Liam](#):
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> … but thats why he shot him with brute force.

Not really appropriate in such a serious discussion, but this brought memories of being a 4-year-old needing the index fingers of both hands and much gritting of teeth to pull the trigger on my over-sized cap gun.

Back to the debate. Sorry.

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