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Cheap French Villas For Sale -
01-14-2007, 11:59 AM
If you don't mind having a summer home in Godless france, and you don't mind a few bullet holes, and you don't mind various and assorted stains on some of the walls....well THIS might be a good deal for someone.
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For sale: The villas where Saddam's men
revelled in wine and women
The walls are cracked and damp, the floors are littered with squatters' debris and the gardens are overgrown and forgotten.
But these dilapidated villas hide a dark and grisly past: they were once luxury holiday homes owned by Saddam Hussein.
Here some of his most notorious henchmen enjoyed wild drinking parties, met beautiful women - and honed their killing skills.
Now the villas, in the South of France, are being sold and estate agents believe the Saddam connection will result in a flood of interest and send their value soaring.
One regular visitor was Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, who is due to follow the dictator to the gallows in the next few weeks.
Another was Saddam's reviled son Uday, who was sent to France to cool down after he killed a servant in a drunken rage.
And in one of the gardens lie some potent reminders of Saddam's violent regime: old targets in the shape of human figures, riddled with bullet holes and surrounded by spent cartridges.
Neighbours remember how shooting practice was a regular activity at the villas - and they recall the wild parties that Saddam's elite enjoyed.
Noelle Cadoret, who has a house nearby, said: "There were always beautiful women coming in and out, and what we called Arab playboys everywhere.
"They appeared to be part of the international jet set, played very loud pop music and drank all the time.
"Occasionally we heard pistol shots, and this was the men practising their shooting. They would fire at empty whisky bottles.
"We got used to it. We didn't know then that Saddam owned the villa. We only found out later."
Following Saddam's execution, the villas have been claimed by the new Iraqi government and put on the market to raise money to help rebuild the shattered country.
The villas have a combined value of around £15 million but could sell for double that because of their history.
The most luxurious property is Saddam's Villa, a £9 million mansion with two swimming pools and 350 acres overlooking Cannes.
One of Osama Bin Laden's brothers owns a house nearby. Tikriti took several holidays here when he was chief of Saddam's feared Mukhabarat intelligence service.
Brutal Uday also enjoyed holidays at the mansion after his father ordered him abroad for the drunken murder of the servant.
Saddam is not believed to have visited the home himself, though he did visit Provence - the region in which the houses are situated - with then French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac (now president) during the Seventies.
The second property is a £6 million, eight-bedroom villa with olive groves, in the nearby perfume capital of Grasse, about 25 miles from Cannes.
It was also abandoned after being confiscated during the first Gulf War. Squatters moved in, painted graffiti everywhere and set fire to rooms.
Filthy mattresses still litter the bedroom floors. The wrought-iron gates are left open, allowing anybody to wander in and out.
Its pond and swimming pool are clogged and the garden is full of weeds.
The men who used to guard this house were members of the Mukhabarat and this is where the 'human' figures were set up for target practice.
Strict privacy laws in France have made the country a useful bolt hole for exiled members of detested regimes, including Mobutu Sese Seko, the Zaire dictator, and Jean-Claude "Baby Doc' Duvalier of Haiti.
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Perhaps we could use the properties as headquarters for a ministry in heathen france. I'll bring it up at the next Pastor's meeting...
Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: Cheap French Villas For Sale -
01-14-2007, 09:44 PM
These should be given to our Godly President G.W. Bush and his most faithful associate, Richard Cheney! They are directly responsible for our continuing victories in the Muddled East and deserve an out of the way location to relax and rest on their laurels! Sure, the downside is that it's in Godless France, but I can't help but think that the President and Vice President could only serve as an example to those effete commies of how real men should be.
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