On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death? The answer lies behind the locked gates of The President's Gardens. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" meets "The Kite-Runner" in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.