Saddam Hussein

Now, have honeymoon sex in Saddam’s bed for just £150 per night

Now, have honeymoon sex in Saddam’s bed for just £150 per nightLondon, Apr 5 : It might sound a bit eccentric, but Iraq is offering Saddam Hussein's palatial boudoir to newlyweds to make their first night extra special.

The ex-dictator's bedroom is on offer for 150-pound a night. At the moment Hussein's presidential palace, which includes Roman columns, chandeliers and gargantuan bathrooms, is undergoing renovation in the town of Hillah, some 60 miles south of Baghdad.

"We hope that many people will visit," The Times quoted a tourism official, as saying.

Saddam Hussein’s yacht for sale

Saddam Hussein’s yacht for saleLondon, Nov 3: Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s palatial 270-foot yacht “Ocean Breeze” has been put on sale. Fastened at the southern French resort of Nice, the yacht is expected to fetch around 20 million pounds.

A senior Iraqi government official Ali al-Dabbagh said that the government hopes for a sale within the next few weeks.

Built in 1981, the Ocean Breeze is said to be modest in size compared with other “megayachts”.

Saddam was stabbed six times after execution, claims guard

Saddam was stabbed six times after execution, claims guardLondon, Nov 1 : The body of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was stabbed six times after he was executed, according to the head guard at his tomb north of Baghdad, who was one of the people that helped bury the corpse.

The head of Saddam’s tribe categorically denies the claim. The Iraqi Government similarly denies any mutilation took place after the dictator was hanged on December 
30, 2006, for crimes against humanity, The Times reported.

White House ''buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs''

Tony Blair, Saddam HusseinWashington, Aug. 7 : The Government of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is said to have passed on intelligence to Washington that suggested that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, but this information was conveniently buried by the White House, a new book claims.

Ron Suskind claims in his book -- In The Way of the World, that Blair sent Michael Shipster, a top British spy to the Middle East in 2003 — three months before the invasion — to dig up enough intelligence to avoid a war.

Iraqi National Museum recovers 701 items looted after Saddam's overthrow

Nicosia, Apr 30: Saddam HusseinIraqi National Museum has recovered 701-looted artefacts l

Saddam Hussein had Aussie aid worker killed

Melbourne, Mar.

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