Dancing Bin Laden?
A reader tip to the Psycho Sensei produced this lovely missive from our friends at MSNBC . Paul suggests that we change voice chips with Barbie so Osama says "Math is Hard" and Saddam says "Let's go shopping."
JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 — Israeli customs have seized a shipment of 450 singing, dancing Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein dolls under a law banning incitement, an official said on Wednesday.
The battery powered figurines were confiscated at the northern port of Haifa, Customs Authority spokeswoman Idit Lev-Zerahiya said.
An Israeli Arab businessman from the northern village of Qafr Qara admitted under questioning to importing the 400 copies of the al-Qaida leader and 50 of the deposed Iraqi ruler, as a “gimmick” for sale to Jews and Arabs, a customs statement said.
“The law doesn’t exactly say that you cannot own a bin Laden doll, but neither he nor Saddam Hussein are exactly good educational role models,” Lev-Zerahiya told Reuters.
The ship carrying the toys from China also contained 450 Teletubby dolls, which agents are examining to see if they are counterfeit, the statement said.
While Palestinians have held some demonstrations in support of bin Laden there have been no mass displays of affection for the accused terror mastermind.
Most Israelis abhor Saddam as an enemy who fired missiles at the Jewish state during the 1991 Gulf War. Popular sentiment in the Palestinian areas is largely in favor of the deposed Iraqi leader, especially for his support of the Palestinian cause.