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Saddam Hussein is working in Baghdad......As an ambulance man
Baghdad, Aug 09: Saddam Hussein is alive and well in Baghdad and allowing his photograph to be taken with US troops.
Baghdad, Aug 09: Saddam Hussein is alive and
well in Baghdad and allowing his photograph to be taken with
US troops.
But unlike his namesake -- the former Iraqi President
ousted by US-led troops in early April -- 31-year-old Saddam
works as an ambulance man out of the capital's al-Iskan
hospital, where the dead and wounded from Thursday's car
bombing at the Jordanian Embassy were taken.
"Contrary to what one might think, to be called Saddam during Saddam's rule was not good," he said.
"Contrary to what one might think, to be called Saddam during Saddam's rule was not good," he said.
"I was even put in prison for four months in 1993
because I asked my friends to call me Ismael instead of
Saddam."
While the family of the ousted leader hails from the
Sunni Muslim bastion of Tikrit north of Baghdad, the
ambulance man comes from a Shiite family in southern Iraq.
His father, Ali Hussein, said his son's name was
chosen "by chance" before Daddam became president.
The assailants behind the Jordanian Embassy car
bombing were "Saddam loyalists, former secret service agents.
I hope they catch Saddam," he said of his namesake.
Bureau Report