"I punched Sadaam in the mouth."

Heh. (Hat tip: Lt. Smash)

"I began cussing at him, calling him a mother**cker, a son-of-a-bitch -- you name it. I told him I was Shiite from the south and was part of the revolution against him in 1991. I said he murdered my uncles and cousins. He imprisoned my father.

"All these years of anger, I couldn't stop. I tried to say the worst things I could. I told him if he were a real man he would have killed himself. I asked him: 'Why are you living in that dirty little hole, you bastard? You are a rat. Your father is a rat.'"

In Arabic, Saddam told Samir to shut up. And when Saddam called him a traitor, an enraged Samir silenced his prisoner with a flurry of quick jabs to the face.

"I punched Saddam in the mouth."

As is usual for the "alternative" papers (read: freebies), the article is full of frank and colorful statements not dissimilar from the one quoted above which I've tried to soften. If you care about such things, read on at your own peril!