[CarrotAndStick]

No, the red-and-black flag on your earlier post will only have those stars removed and not that scrawl. The old one had a curvier, hand-written scrawl. The new one has the same scrawl in a slightly altered font:

Old flag:

New flag:

[Stoat]

Well, ‘duh’ @ me then, thanks for the correction...see what happens when you work between 3-4 different articles :-)

The version posted in a South African paper last night said that both the script and the stars would be removed.

Apparently the original scrawl was in Saddam’s actual handwriting and so they wanted to get rid of that legacy while keeping the message “God is Great”.

Thanks again :-)