By Luke Baker
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - In a stiflingly hot and crowded corridor of Baghdad's al-Wasati hospital, Nofal Dawoud is waiting nervously to be made whole again.
Ten years ago, shortly after defecting from Saddam Hussein's army, Dawoud was captured by members of the Baath party and hauled into a state hospital in the southern city of Basra.
His hands were bound behind his back, he was blindfolded, injected with almost enough anesthetic to cover the pain and had his left ear cut off by a surgeon acting on the dictator's latest whim. But that wasn't the end of it.
Realizing that they should have removed his right ear and not the left, the doctors promptly turned Dawoud over and had the surgeon slice off the other ear, too.
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Who are we to tell these people that they can't have their ears cut off? It might be acceptable in their culture people!!
-Rudey