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The Sheikh of Baghdad: Tales of Celebrity and Terror from Pro Wrestling's General Adnan

The Sheikh of Baghdad: Tales of Celebrity and Terror from Pro Wrestling's General Adnan

Alkaissy, Adnan
Bernstein, Ross

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ISBN10: 1572437308
ISBN13: 9781572437302
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
Published: Apr 1 2005
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
Saddam Hussein used a boyhood friend of his as a smoke screen when he was grabbing control of Iraq in the 1960s. Knowing that the country was enamored with wrestling, Hussein forced his former classmate, Adnan Al-Kaissy, to wrestle in giant spectacles that the public loved. Much like the gladiator matches staged by Roman Caesars, Hussein's wrestling matches featuring Al-Kaissy were intended to entertain and appease the masses while Hussein became dictator. Al-Kaissy became a living legend in Iraq, amassing great wealth and popularity, but he left all of that - and more than $2 million in the bank--when he fled in the middle of the night and bribed his way out of the country. Al-Kaissy became known to generations of wrestling fans in U.S. as Chief Billy White Wolf, The Sheik and most famously as General Adnan. No other celerity has a story similar to Al-Kaissy's, and his autobiography will keep sports fans and political enthusiasts equally raptured.

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