Yes, you’re right, I’m only posting this so I could write that headline.

From here:

More than five years after Saddam Hussein was executed, Iraq still wants a piece of its former president: his buttock, currently being held by an ex-UK soldier.

Nigel Ely, 52, grabbed a 2-pound piece of Hussein’s bronze statue – that made up part of his rear-end — when it was pulled down by Iraqis in 2003, the Sun reports.

Ely claims he is the legal owner of the buttock since he has turned it into a work of art. But the Iraqi government is demanding that he returns it or face possible theft charges, as it views the piece of scrap metal as a “cultural antiquity”.

I had thought that Iraq was sinking into barbarism but clearly I was wrong: it takes a certain degree of cultural sophistication to regard a buttock fragment as a “cultural antiquity.” This could never have happened in Afghanistan.