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The unique playing cards featuring Iraq's 55 "most wanted" former leaders have become a hot collector's item from here to Baghdad.

In the past two weeks, Nick Lucca, of greatUSAflags.com, says his distributorship has sold more than 700,000 decks, each at a cost of about $6.

Interestingly enough, at least 2,000 decks were ordered by U.S. troops still deployed in and around Iraq (the Pentagon reportedly produced only 200 decks for its top military officials).

"One of the first orders we received was from Kuwait," Lucca told this column in a phone interview. "A top military official there ordered 111 decks for his troops that were about to go home.

"We gave him a real good price," he added, "and I asked only one favor - that he take a picture of the troops holding the cards. He said that would be OK, except that the military won't let the faces of its special forces troops be photographed."

Lucca's company in Illinois is the official distributor of the glossy cards produced by the United States Playing Card Co., the leading playing card company in the world.

"This is one of the hottest items in the country and we can barely keep them in stock," he says, adding that their casino-quality stock makes for a great poker night. Particularly if you're holding a royal flush, Saddam high.

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