By Con Coughlin
Insightful, penetrating, and stunning, the defining biography of Iraq's deposed tyrant Drawing on an remarkable community of resources, contacts, and firsthand stories, Con Coughlin takes us to the heart of Saddam Hussein's advanced, bewildering regime -- and past. totally up-to-date and revised, Saddam: His upward push and Fall meticulously describes how Hussein took energy and instantly set approximately controlling each point of Iraqi existence. Coughlin examines Hussein's regime either ahead of and after its fall, exploring the contradictions of Saddam's deepest existence: his sponsoring of Islamic fundamentalism whereas whiskey ingesting and womanizing in addition to his reliance on and occasion of kinfolk negated by means of his violent and temperamental therapy of them. With proof from family, servants, and employees, Saddam: His upward thrust and Fall is exclusive in its close-up illustration of this elusive and secretive international. In all-new chapters and an epilogue, and with surprising new disclosures, Coughlin additionally vividly recounts the previous few months of Saddam's reign and his eventual trap by means of American forces.
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Exactly how the ambitious young nephew came to be reunited with his embittered and disgraced uncle in Tikrit is another episode in the life of the young Saddam that has become cluttered with an array of fanciful and highly imaginative folktales. A commonsense explanation would be that Khairallah who was, after all, the boy’s foster father, had offered to help the boy obtain a proper education. His sister Subha, who had her work cut out simply keeping her growing family above the subsistence level, would have jumped at the prospect of having one less mouth to feed.
Where there is incontrovertible evidence of Saddam’s involvement in committing murder concerns the case of Saadoun al-Tikriti, a Communist Party member who worked as the local party official and who was killed in October 1958. The Baathists were bitter enemies of the communists and Khairallah, who was one of the main Baath representatives in Tikrit, would have taken great exception to a communist holding a position of authority in the city. The real motive for the murder, however, was that Tikriti was well aware of Khairallah’s unsavory background.
In 1980 he provoked the disastrous eight-year war with Iran that cost an estimated one million Iraqi and Iranian lives, while the high point for Saddam during the Gulf War in 1991 came when he fired a succession of Scud missiles at Tel Aviv. Khairallah’s indoctrination of Saddam was rewarded with his appointment as mayor of Baghdad, a post he exploited with such exuberant venality that in the 1980s Saddam was forced to remove him from office, close down seventeen of his companies, and arrest their executives.