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A radio station thought to be backed by the Central Intelligence Agency has been broadcasting a gangsta rap parody of Saddam Hussein to Iraq.The radio has a Saddam impersonator comedically rapping out a massage in English and Arabic to the tune of Coolio's hit 'Gangsta's Paradise.'Against the background of studio laughter, the singer proclaims he had the devil by his side but now the game is up.'If you don't like me, I kill you. I am Saddam,' he sings in an English segment.'Bush wanna kick me, I don't know why, and if I call him, he does me goodbye.

The Wall Street Journal Most evenings after dinner, Bjorn Fransson retires to a walk-in closet to fiddle with his powerful Japanese-made radio, hunting through a cacophony of distant voices speaking languages he can't understand. "It is like collecting stamps or birds," says the 59-year-old Swedish schoolteacher, who lives on the blustery island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. "We all dream of finding something no one else has." Earlier this month, while tuning into an AM frequency usually clogged by country music from Prague, he picked up an unfamiliar broadcast in Arabic. He couldn't fathom what was being said but...