Saddam Hussein

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• Regional: Middle East: Iraq: Government  (20)
• Society: Issues: Warfare and Conflict: Specific Conflicts: Iraq: Personalities  (9)

Guardian Unlimited - Full Coverage: The Trial of Saddam Hussein - - Ongoing news, comment and analysis includes interactive guides, who's who, photos and timelines.

PBS - Frontline: The Survival of Saddam - - Transcripts, video clips, photos, documents and other materials from a documentary on President Hussein of Iraq.

The Personal History of Saddam Hussein - - Biography presenting a negative perspective on Iraq's leader.

Saddam, Tell Me About Your Mum - - Extracts from an interview with former CIA psychiatrist Dr Jerrold Post, focusing on the childhood of the Iraqi leader. (November 14, 2002)

Tales of the Tyrant - - Profile of Saddam Hussein, by Mark Bowden, published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine. (May, 2002)

Twilight of a Tyrant - - Peter Beaumont pieces together Saddams security measures and life style, interviews with schoolfriends and talks to exiles and intelligence experts to explore the president´s mindset. The Observer. (February 23, 2002)

BBC News - Saddam Hussein Profile - - Profile of the man who has been president of Iraq for the past two decades and who "has the dubious distinction of being the world's best known and most hated Arab leader." (January 4, 2001)

Arab of Vast Ambition: Saddam Hussein - - Profile by Elaine Sciolino, published in the New York Times a few days after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. [Requires free registration.] (August 5, 1990)

Baghdad's Strongman - - Profile of Saddam Hussein, published in the New York Times in 1982. (July 15, 1982)