Interesting biography of SaddamMirror.co.uk - SADDAM HUSSEIN: A LIFE OF EVIL
He was born on April 28, 1937, a member of the violent yet clever al-Khalab clan, the son of a landless peasant who disappeared before he was born.
Locals believed the boy was a bastard and he suffered relentless bullying as a result.
When he was three his mother remarried a crude and lazy peasant who beat the boy with a stick and sent him to steal eggs and chickens from neighbouring farms.
He later publicly idolised his mother, Subha, but she was unloving, foul-mouthed and neglectful. For years, Saddam was shuttled between various relatives and rarely went to school.
His first taste of stability came when he went, aged 10, to live in Tikrit with a maternal uncle, Khairullah Tulfah, a Nazi sympathiser imprisoned by the British during the Second World War. He inspired Saddam to dream of becoming a nationalist Arab hero like Saladin, the great defender of Islam against the Crusaders.
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He dyed his hair black and watched his weight, eating fresh fish, especially lobster and shrimp, lean meat and vegetables.
His food was flown in twice a week and examined by scientists for radiation and poisoning. Meals were washed down with a bottle of Mateus Rose wine.
Before the fall of Baghdad, his days were spent in his office or at meetings, during which he would break off regularly, and often abruptly, for a short nap.
His evenings were spent watching old intrigue-filled movies such as The Day Of The Jackal or Enemy Of The State. His favourite was the Godfather series.
He watched CNN, Sky, the BBC and Al Jazeera but had only a handful of books, mainly about Stalin.
Saddam married Sajida, the daughter of his uncle, in 1958 and had three daughters as well as their two sons.
He had several affairs and especially liked blondes.
If he fancied a woman on the TV he would order her to be brought to him and used affairs to humiliate women�s husbands.
His most notorious affair was with Samira Shahbandar, the blonde wife of the director-general of Iraqi
He was born on April 28, 1937, a member of the violent yet clever al-Khalab clan, the son of a landless peasant who disappeared before he was born.
Locals believed the boy was a bastard and he suffered relentless bullying as a result.
When he was three his mother remarried a crude and lazy peasant who beat the boy with a stick and sent him to steal eggs and chickens from neighbouring farms.
He later publicly idolised his mother, Subha, but she was unloving, foul-mouthed and neglectful. For years, Saddam was shuttled between various relatives and rarely went to school.
His first taste of stability came when he went, aged 10, to live in Tikrit with a maternal uncle, Khairullah Tulfah, a Nazi sympathiser imprisoned by the British during the Second World War. He inspired Saddam to dream of becoming a nationalist Arab hero like Saladin, the great defender of Islam against the Crusaders.
>>
He dyed his hair black and watched his weight, eating fresh fish, especially lobster and shrimp, lean meat and vegetables.
His food was flown in twice a week and examined by scientists for radiation and poisoning. Meals were washed down with a bottle of Mateus Rose wine.
Before the fall of Baghdad, his days were spent in his office or at meetings, during which he would break off regularly, and often abruptly, for a short nap.
His evenings were spent watching old intrigue-filled movies such as The Day Of The Jackal or Enemy Of The State. His favourite was the Godfather series.
He watched CNN, Sky, the BBC and Al Jazeera but had only a handful of books, mainly about Stalin.
Saddam married Sajida, the daughter of his uncle, in 1958 and had three daughters as well as their two sons.
He had several affairs and especially liked blondes.
If he fancied a woman on the TV he would order her to be brought to him and used affairs to humiliate women�s husbands.
His most notorious affair was with Samira Shahbandar, the blonde wife of the director-general of Iraqi
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