A few months ago I blogged about a book supposedly bound in human skin; recent news reports have reminded us about a book written in human blood. The blood in question (27 pints of it, donated over a two-year period) belonged to Saddam Hussein, who in a gruesome display of religiosity commanded that a copy of the Qu’ran should be penned with it. Now the problem is what to do with this highly sensitive document, which is currently held in a vault beneath a Baghdad mosque. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/19/saddam-legacy-quran-iraqi-government for more.