[calcowgirl]

Interesting that these stories from Aziz and Al-Mudafer sound so much the same. Either it was a common Saddam practice... or its just a common tale.

From your post:

Mr Al-Mudafer was just six years old when Saddam, with the Ba'ath party behind him, took power. Growing up in Basra, he remembers the time when, on the last day of the Muslim holy month Ramadan, Ba'ath party agents gave his aunt the death certificate of his uncle, and then asked her to pay for the bullet.

From FR Patriot Rally Action Report, March 2003

She went into her rant about Bush being evil again. I stopped her and asked her how come she was supporting a mass murderer (Saddam). I told her about Aziz Al-Taee's cousin who was cut into little pieces, delivered to his house in a bag, and the family was presented with a bill for the bullets. If the family complained, someone else would be shot.

[Nita Nupress]

That's why I asked you earlier if that article had already been posted -- I remembered the part about the bullets. And when I just posted it, I had decided it was the same article and I'd seen it elsewhere.

Hmmmm... So now we have two different people telling essentially the same story. But like you said, it may just have been standard operating procedure for Saddam.