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00:08Evil, powerful, uncompromising, ruthless, behind closed doors, a private hell.
00:21Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behavior.
00:26He fantasized about older women.
00:30He puts makeup on.
00:32He had thousands of concubines.
00:34They were this glamorous, gun-toting sex objects.
00:39Fire on designated targets.
00:41The psychological insights of the degenerate and deviant.
00:45He was obsessed with aphrodisiacs.
00:48It's typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.
00:52Power can change somebody.
01:05A tyrant, a fighter, and a notorious sexual deviant.
01:12He wanted to instill fear in the population.
01:16He was a textbook oppressive tyrant.
01:18Saddam Hussein became one of the world's most despised dictators.
01:23He was a sexual sadist par extreme.
01:25All of his sexual fantasies, desires, gratification are entwined with a thirst for violence.
01:35And I think he maintained the mentality of a torturer right throughout his career.
01:39He dropped lethal gas on his own people.
01:43Over 5,000 people were killed, men, women, and children.
01:48Murder by day, before dropping sex stimulants and calling for his mistresses by night.
01:56He participated in sexual torture of his victims,
02:01including those who were political prisoners as well as the women that he had in his own bedroom.
02:07His world view was completely shaped by his belief that he was the greatest person in the world.
02:14And nothing short of an invasion to capture him in the end was going to stop him.
02:28Baghdad, Iraq.
02:30The love story of Zabiba and the king plays out on stage.
02:36The searing romance is based on a novel written by one Saddam Hussein.
02:44Perhaps to impress his mistress of 30 years, Parasula Lampsos.
02:51It's quite amusing to people, if it wasn't so horrendous, that Saddam Hussein would write,
02:57or at least ghost write, a romantic novel.
03:00Because he was the antithesis of everything a normal romantic hero would be.
03:09Who was this Iraqi enigma?
03:12Romance novelist, sadistic killer, kingpin on the wrong side of the global war on terror.
03:21I am a helpless citizen of the Middle East.
03:31For the future ruler of one of the world's most oil rich nations, Saddam Hussein had an unlikely start.
03:39He was born in 1937 in Alarja, near Tikrit, just north of Baghdad.
03:48He was a Sunni Muslim in a country that was predominantly Shiite Muslim.
03:57He was brought up in a fairly poor family and joined the military as a way to try to move
04:08up and make a name for himself.
04:12Saddam's father was a shepherd who either died or abandoned the family before Saddam's birth, so he never had a
04:21true father figure.
04:23His mother, in her desperation, tried to abort the child, but when that failed, she married another man who, according
04:33to his CIA profile, often beat the young Saddam.
04:37But Saddam did find a father figure in his uncle, an official of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party, Kairala
04:47Talfar.
04:49He taught the boy to stand on his own two feet, and he railed against the decadent influence of the
04:56imperial British.
05:03Saddam Hussein, The Baghdad of the 1950s was a real jewel in the crown.
05:09It was a beautiful place with ancient temples, beautiful buildings, and it attracted tourism from all over the world.
05:17Not just that, it was a very liberal city.
05:20Women were able to go to work, young girls went to school.
05:24People were free to drink, people were free to cohabitate, people were free to express their opinions politically, religiously, so
05:37on.
05:38Now, to an Arab nationalist, all of this represents the decadence of the West, which is there to undermine the
05:47pure Arab way of life, and he would have reacted strongly to that.
05:52Fuelled by his uncle's hatred of British imperialism, Saddam was an activist from a young age, and he wasn't going
06:00to wait for permission to lead.
06:04If you try to understand Saddam Hussein, you've got to look at his course from his slightly difficult upbringing, the
06:13absence of a father, and his immersion at a very early age in Arab nationalism with this uncle who was
06:21a mentor.
06:22Especially that his uncle was, he fought in the battles against the UK in Iraq in 1941, and that has
06:30influenced Saddam Hussein's upbringing in terms of looking up to his uncle and looking at Western imperialism as an ideology
06:39that needed to be rid in Iraq.
06:44But unlike his uncle, Saddam had no intention of running for political office.
06:53Power was there to be taken by force. At just 22, he made his move.
07:02In 1959, the young Saddam Hussein led a failed assassination attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister.
07:11Because it failed, he had to escape the country, first by horseback and then swimming across a river, which gave
07:20him a mythical outlook and the admiration of the Iraqi people.
07:26The mythology of the foiled assassination plot would later be used to help create Saddam's cult of personality.
07:35For now, however, he was content to lie low and study law in Cairo, until he found his way back
07:41to Baghdad.
07:44That chance came in February 1963, after the Ba'ath party overthrew the Iraqi leader, Abdul Karim Qasim, in a
07:53violent coup.
07:57The storied city of Baghdad, capital of Iraq, has been the scene once more of bloody revolt.
08:02For five years, General Abdel Qasim, right, ruled the country by armed might.
08:07Now, like many before him, he has fallen as he rose violently.
08:11The coast was now clear to return to Iraq and take a wife, an arranged marriage to his first cousin,
08:20Sajida Talfar, the daughter of his mentor and uncle, Kairala Talfar.
08:26It was a calculated move on Saddam's part, designed to shore up his support within the Ba'ath party.
08:34Maybe he had a romantic side to him, I'm not sure.
08:38I mean, I'm sure he had exposed some sort of romance.
08:42But you also see that brutal leader, the one who is oppressive.
08:48So you have that bipolarity in his leadership and in his persona as well.
08:54Iraq was free, but by no means united.
08:57For a brief time, Iraq's three peoples, the Kurds, the Shia and the Sunni, shared power.
09:04But there followed a series of coups.
09:06And then, in 1969, the Arab nationalist Ba'ath party took over for good.
09:12Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ahmed Hassan al-Baqar, became president, with Saddam as his unofficial deputy.
09:20He was also extremely ambitious, and when he came close to power, he proved to be absolutely ruthless.
09:33Not only ruthless, but also, as he ascended closer to power, an increasingly roving eye.
09:40In 1968, the then 31-year-old married Saddam attended a dinner in Baghdad and was besotted by the daughter
09:50of his host's neighbour.
09:52She had jumped the fence to join the gathering.
09:56Parasula Lamsos was only 16, a Greek businessman's daughter.
10:01It's said they danced cheek to cheek to Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night.
10:06The butcher of Baghdad would meet with Parasula for at least three nights a week for the next 33 years
10:15of war and suffering.
10:21By 1979, Saddam Hussein had risen through the ranks from Ba'athist hitman to president of the Republic of Iraq.
10:30Saddam Hussein wanted to portray himself as the father of the nation, father of the Iraqis and the Iraqi nation.
10:37And he often used narratives and propaganda that supported that story.
10:43He saw himself as the natural leader of the Arab world.
10:48By the time he became president, he had five children.
10:53Two sons, Uday and Kusei, who would later become as infamous as their father.
10:59And three daughters, whom he married off to prominent political allies.
11:05Soon after becoming president, it's believed he had multiple mistresses, including Parasula Lamsos.
11:14When he wasn't gratifying himself in the bedroom, he was ruthlessly cementing his grip on power and eliminating his enemies.
11:27On the 22nd of July, 1979, just one week after he became president, Saddam Hussein called his party members to
11:37a special meeting.
11:39As their new leader arrives, those attending think it will be business as usual.
11:46But Saddam is about to reveal his true intentions.
11:53Saddam's deputy announces that there are traitors in the audience.
11:58Members disloyal to their new leader.
12:07One by one, their names are read out.
12:15One by one, the accused are ushered out, never to be seen again.
12:26In 1979, Saddam Hussein staged a very public, in fact televised purging of his political party.
12:35The images of him sitting on a stage smoking a cigarette while names are called of party members who are
12:42brought forward.
12:43Ahmed Ibrahim Saleh.
12:47Mohammed Manaf al-Yaseen.
12:49No one knowing where they're being ushered.
12:52And you talk about top leadership, army personnel, you just find them getting ushered out one after another.
13:01And then soon after you realize what's happening because you can see even on live television that people's reactions were
13:06starting to look bizarre.
13:08People starting to look scared.
13:09So you could only imagine what was happening to those people called outside.
13:13Later on, we realized that they were being shot to death while Saddam was just sitting on the stage and
13:18smoking cigars.
13:19And as the remaining members of the party realize what is going on, this atmosphere of adulation starts to build
13:27up as all of a sudden they are claiming and declaring their support of Saddam Hussein.
13:41But I think the grandiosity of it is the performance and to try to create fear amongst those who are
13:48even willing to consider the possibility of going against his wishes.
13:52It's also known that he even assassinated the close family members of his because he felt that they are plotting
14:01against him.
14:02Murdering members of his own family sent a clear message.
14:07Stand up to Saddam and you won't be standing for much longer.
14:13The wives and sisters of opponents learned their president had little mercy for them too.
14:19And a pattern of sexual terrorism was emerging.
14:23Hussein was a sexual sadist.
14:27He entwined his sexuality with violence.
14:31He would use his power control over these women to sexually abuse them and to sexually torture them.
14:40But alongside that, it gave him pleasure to instill fear and terror into his victims.
14:47Just like all sexual sadists, this was the only way for him to receive sexual pleasure.
14:54Yet in public, like so many of his fellow dictators, he was at pains to present a very different image.
15:02When he goes to visit places, he often goes walks and there's a lot of children around him cheering for
15:10him, a lot of women and elderly.
15:12And that helped creating and boosting that narrative as being the father of the nation.
15:18And I think he did that on purpose.
15:20In 1980, fresh from his coronation as undisputed ruler of Iraq, he surprises his family and the nation by taking
15:29a second wife.
15:33Totally unrelated but equally surprising, he decides the Ayatollah-led Islamic revolution in neighboring Iran is a threat to his
15:42brand of Arab nationalism.
15:45So he flexes his muscles with a preemptive strike.
15:50Saddam funded his military with oil dollars, but Iran hits back hard.
16:00This oil installation at Qut received a direct hit from Iranian planes three days ago.
16:08Whilst outside, those who have not fled cower beneath anything that will give them cover.
16:15As the war dragged on, Saddam relied on the United States for support. Oil was black gold in the 1980s
16:24and the West was thirsty for it.
16:26In 1980, when the war sprang up with Iran, he was supplied or helped by not just the West, but
16:34also by Israel.
16:36Because of course, at that stage, the enemy was seen as the mullahs in Iran.
16:40So at that point, the West was being good with him, but it didn't last.
16:47Emboldened by that support from the United States, he invaded Iran.
16:53The war lasted eight years and was one of the bloodiest conflicts in the Middle East, claiming over a million
17:00lives.
17:02With so many other conflicts in the Middle East, Iran-Iraq has become the forgotten war.
17:07During the course of the war, he ran Iraq's economy into the ground, ending up owing billions of dollars to
17:15oil rich Kuwait.
17:16In the capital, huge pictures of Saddam Hussein look down on a city and an economy in deep trouble.
17:22You've got to look at the other factor of his grandiosity. He just couldn't restrain himself.
17:29Even as the war with Iran dragged on, crippling Iraq's economy, Hussein built huge, opulent palaces.
17:39He released propaganda photos depicting a happy and homely family life.
17:44Years later, however, when U.S. troops stormed one of his palaces, they referred to it as his love shack.
17:54A labyrinth of mirrored walls, beanbag chairs, lamps shaped like women, bottles of cognac and a jacuzzi.
18:04The walls were adorned with seedy, semi-pornographic murals.
18:08And in the bedroom, American troops found photos, not of Saddam's loving family, but of his many conquests.
18:17Saddam Hussein was like all other dictators, in that there was a public front,
18:22and there's what he did behind the public front in his personal life.
18:27And it was very important that this be kept hidden.
18:30The reason, of course, was it was against his image as the sort of father of the nation.
18:37But also, it would have actually made some people step back in horror.
18:42So he had to keep it separate and keep it hidden.
18:46And like so many others of his kind, this only emerges after his downfall.
18:53It also became clear Saddam had discovered a new weapon to keep any Iraqi opposition at bay.
19:01The widespread use of torture and sexual sadism.
19:06Hussein was a sexual sadist.
19:08And what that means is, is that all of his sexual fantasies, desires, gratification are entwined with a thirst for
19:18violence.
19:19For the majority of people, their sexual appetite, their sexual interests, they develop during puberty.
19:29And if you are attracted to violence, this is when that cultivates and culminates into sadistic tendencies.
19:41So it is likely that well before Hussein gained the power that he had, that he was likely participating in
19:51various forms of sexual sadism.
19:55Bizarrely, Saddam's mistress Parasula would write in her memoirs that one of the dictator's favourite pastimes was donning a cowboy
20:04hat, sipping whiskey and smoking his favourite Havana cigars whilst watching torture.
20:10To the musical accompaniment of Frank Sinatra's strangers in the night.
20:17Small wonder that his sons Uday and Kuse were showing signs of following in his predatory footsteps.
20:26Hussein's sons had an overindulgent, excessive lifestyle that almost exceeded the sexual conquest of Hussein.
20:39One of his sons Uday was rumored to have any woman brought to his pleasure dome at any time.
20:46They demanded numerous sexual partners and it's not so hard to recognize that this is how they viewed masculinity.
20:57That they grew up, their father is Saddam Hussein.
21:00So when they became men, they built their sexual lives around these extreme sexual appetites.
21:08Somewhat thinking that they're normalised, especially that they deserve that level of sexual satisfaction as the sons of the ruler.
21:19Uday had become a violent sexual predator, cruising Baghdad nightclubs to pick up young women.
21:26Those who resisted were kidnapped and dealt with by his bodyguards, as were any who dared to criticise him.
21:33He and the colonel took us to see the morgue. Karim says he was told, go and find your brothers
21:40there.
21:40They were lying in a pile of 50 stinking bodies. Their main crime appears to have been insulting Saddam Hussein's
21:48son Uday.
21:49With his country devastated by war and poverty, and his sons wildly out of control, Saddam continued his regime of
21:59sex pills and sexual liaisons.
22:03It was at this time that Saddam Hussein committed his most heinous atrocity.
22:12In March 1988, with Kurdish peoples in northern Iraq rebelling against his ruinous reign, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons to
22:23quash the unrest.
22:24A week ago, the Iranians captured it. Within days, they claim, Baghdad ordered it to be destroyed with chemical weapons,
22:31even though 50,000 of their own people were still living there.
22:34Saddam Hussein's murderous regime turned a genocidal when, on the 16th of March 1988, Iraqi forces dropped a lethal mix
22:46of gas onto a Kurdish town, Halabja.
22:52Can she say why she fears Saddam Hussein?
22:58Because Saddam had this problem.
23:02The weapons that the Saddam's regime used in the chemical attack in the Halabja was a combination of mustard gas
23:09and sarin.
23:11Iraq became the first government to ever attack its own people with chemical weapons.
23:18And it remains the largest such attack in human history.
23:23Over 5,000 people were killed, men, women and children.
23:30The people, the families we found lying all around, had not been injured.
23:33They'd been poisoned by chemical bombs and shells containing cyanide, mustard and other nerve gases.
23:40It was one of the worst atrocities of the modern era.
23:45I think he wanted to set an example.
23:47I think he wanted to set a precedent for whatever group wanted to demand change is gonna be met with
23:57the same brutal response.
23:59And that worked, because after that, there was no other political demands, no political representation.
24:07It was only Saddam's regime, the Ba'athist regime.
24:11You're always reluctant to put labels on people, but if you want to use the word supremely psychopathic,
24:17then there's no doubt that Hussein would fit that.
24:21After the Iran-Iraq hostilities finally ended in August 1988, at the house of Hussein, a revelation was about to
24:30tear the family apart.
24:34Saddam had secretly married his mistress, Samira, two years earlier in 1986.
24:41When his polygamy became public, Saddam's wife of 25 years, Sajida, was furious.
24:49And her oldest son, Uday, murderous.
24:54At a party held by the Egyptian president, Uday got completely out of control and actually beat a man to
25:03death.
25:03That's how bad things were getting.
25:07The victim of Uday's frenzied attack was no stranger.
25:11He was his father's own bodyguard.
25:15He beats people to death because, I mean, his father kills people just for the mere fact of saying,
25:23we want better life, we demand better living standards.
25:28So why would you think this is an unacceptable behaviour?
25:31But yeah, even to Saddam's measure, his sons, Qusai and Uday, were even more brutal than him.
25:38This was the first public sign of a family dynasty increasingly consumed by sexual deviancy and extreme violence.
25:48But from both father and eldest son, there was even worse to come.
25:55A woman had just handed over £10,000 worth to add to the growing mountain of gold.
26:00Those who forget to donate are visited by soldiers who remind them of their civic duty.
26:05While the Husayns continued to enrich themselves, their people starved.
26:11Yet Saddam had now all but lost touch with reality.
26:16Saddam Hussein comes to see himself not only as indestructible, but also loved by the majority of the people in
26:28Iraq.
26:28He sincerely believes he is loved, but at the same time, he keeps up this threat and this fear in
26:41the population.
26:43By 1990, with the country deeply and irretrievably in debt, Saddam responded in the only way he knew how.
26:52He accused neighbouring Kuwait, who had helped bankroll his war with Iran, of siphoning off Iraqi oil.
27:03We said to him that what you were doing to us was an act of war.
27:10On the 2nd of August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
27:17Whatever the aim, the United States' response was swift and uncompromising.
27:25And other world leaders joined in.
27:28On the steps of Downing Street tonight, Mrs Thatcher spoke of war.
27:33The peaceful solution would be for Iraq to get out of Kuwait.
27:38That is a matter for them. We hope they will do it.
27:41If not, we shall have to take the military option and see that Iraq does leave Kuwait.
27:48I mean, the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 was predominantly one of Saddam's ambitions personally.
27:55He saw Kuwait as a significantly smaller country in size to Iraq.
28:01He saw that he is capable militarily to take over, to occupy it and stay there in control.
28:08And he invaded it, in fact.
28:10It was luckily for Kuwait in that sense, in that time, that the U.S. and the West came and
28:18aided Kuwait.
28:20Otherwise, it would have easily gone under the hands of Iraq and Saddam's ambitions.
28:26But rather than withdraw, Hussein took hundreds of Western foreigners hostage and paraded them to the world as his guests.
28:36Human shields against a Western attack.
28:39He should never have gone to war against Iran.
28:43Because of that war, he was bankrupt and that's why he had to invade Kuwait.
28:48And then, of course, this time the West was fully against him.
28:52So having started off on a possibly good note with the West, it swung to the complete other side.
29:00So they realized that they had to stop him at some point.
29:07On the 17th of January, 1991, a U.S.-led coalition of more than 30 countries crushed Iraqi forces with a
29:17massive onslaught of cutting edge military technology.
29:20In their opening attack, the Allies combined their stealth and precision technology, electronic warfare tactics, and the classical elements of
29:30mass and surprise.
29:32It took just five days, 100 hours, for them to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
29:39There's a shack.
29:41Oh, yeah.
29:43Keep it in there.
29:45Secondaries.
29:46Big time secondaries.
29:47But before they retreated, Iraqi forces set the oil wells on fire, creating an environmental and economic catastrophe.
29:59Iraq, let's not forget, is the second largest exporter of oil in the world.
30:03And they can easily fluctuate and control the oil prices around the world, which they did at some point.
30:09And that was unacceptable for the West.
30:11So they wanted to have control over these decisions.
30:17Mistress Parasula recalls the only time she saw Saddam cry was when he lost Kuwait.
30:24He had gambled on Western apathy and their previous support for him in the conflict with Iran.
30:30And he had lost.
30:32Heavily.
30:32With the West now calling for his overthrow and his friends in the region deserting him, Saddam Hussein was now
30:41a tyrant without teeth.
30:43But then you see stories and you see images of Iraqi men and women who are dying on the street
30:50after the sanctions because of the scarcity of basic food and basic life.
30:59You know, there was absolutely nothing.
31:01So when there were sanctions on Iraq, it was mainly the Iraqi people that struggled.
31:06He maintained, Saddam Hussein maintained his lavish lifestyle.
31:11The suffering is far greater than anyone had anticipated.
31:15U.S. and Turkish officials now estimate as many as 270,000 Kurds may have fled to that country to
31:22avoid Saddam Hussein's vengeance.
31:25Vengeance for Saddam meant the cruel and prolonged violent humiliation of anyone deemed an opponent.
31:36We're starting to see a systematic use of torture as a political tool for oppression.
31:43We're starting to read stories about rape being a systematic tool to create shame amongst tribes, to create more control
31:53over them, to persuade them and coerce them.
31:56The torture that he inflicted upon women was often associated with rape and sexual violence.
32:06But even men were forced to succumb to these sexually violent proclivities.
32:14And this included using electric shock on the genitals.
32:20It included even emotionally manipulative torture such as having a woman that was a family member of the prisoner, the
32:30male prisoner, having a woman come in and be raped in front of him in order to instill terror and
32:36pain and violence through a orchestrated rape event.
32:42But Saddam wasn't the only Hussein who ordered the torture and rape of civilians.
32:48In the mid-1990s, Saddam's eldest son, Uday, raped the 15-year-old daughter of Saddam's mistress, Parasullah, in front
32:58of her.
32:58Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Parasullah remained Saddam's lover.
33:04And Uday was appointed leader of the paramilitary force Fideen Saddam to try and keep him occupied elsewhere.
33:15The sons are modeling themselves on their father, so they do exactly what he is doing.
33:25Also, Saddam Hussein has expectations of his sons, and he is showing the way for how they can control society.
33:34So it's a reciprocal relationship.
33:38Uday's militia organization tortured and killed his father's opponents and reportedly beheaded 200 women in an anti-prostitution campaign.
33:49They are known to be brutal, like their father, but I don't see this as shocking, to be honest.
33:55I mean, why would you prep your sons to rule if you don't have that kind of ambition?
34:01Uday was even known to torture Iraqi athletes who failed to win international events.
34:08By 1996, even Saddam thought his sadistic son was going too far.
34:15Incredibly, Saddam ordered Uday's assassination.
34:20It failed, but he spent the rest of his life with two bullets lodged in his spine.
34:27As Uday recovered, his father remained leader of a country now almost entirely dependent on food and aid handouts from
34:36the United Nations.
34:38In political or what you might call nationalistic terms, he was a madman.
34:45Whether he was clinically insane is questionable and ultimately doubtful.
34:52What he certainly was, was an undoubted psychopath.
35:02By 2001, Saddam Hussein was living in denial, clinging onto power by encouraging a siege mentality in his benighted and
35:13bankrupt country.
35:18The presidential address was broadcast on all Iraq's television and radio channels simultaneously.
35:25Saddam Hussein told his country that the Gulf War, what he called the immortal mother of all battles, had been
35:32a triumph for Iraq over the forces of Satan.
35:39Saddam Hussein.
35:39In September of that year, however, his fate would be taken out of his hands.
35:44The world changed over a few horrifying moments on 9-11.
35:50Now it was the West who was seeking vengeance.
35:53U.S. President George Bush Jr. declared Iraq a rogue state.
35:59Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
36:06America must not ignore the threat gathering against us.
36:11We cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun, that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
36:20Calling out Saddam Hussein for secretly developing weapons of mass destruction was a big call by President Bush.
36:27No definitive evidence was ever found by U.N. inspectors or American intelligence.
36:34But Saddam himself had continually encouraged the speculation.
36:39And having shown he'd been willing to gas his own people, and having plotted to assassinate the U.S. President's
36:45father, George Bush Sr.,
36:47he had shown himself to be an implacable enemy of the West.
36:53It was seen as an opportunity to get rid of him.
36:56Because for the Bush administration, it was a now or never opportunity to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
37:03Because you have the pretext set is there in terms of, you know, the popular propaganda,
37:08you have the weapons of mass destruction, you have the 9-11, you have harbouring of terrorist networks,
37:15and you have your regional alliances, such as Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states,
37:21who are seeing Saddam as a threat, as an existential threat.
37:25And it's a weak state now, it's a weak regime, so you can get rid of him.
37:29While his empire continued to crumble around him, Saddam found ways to distract himself.
37:36He married a fourth wife in secret, and moved his mistress Parasula Lampras into the grounds of his presidential palace.
37:45After 30 years, Saddam didn't even give her the dignity of a name, referring to her only as Chakra, the
37:54blonde.
37:55He actually kept her in her own house that is rumoured to be gilded in gold,
38:01and she had jewels and all of these extravagant things.
38:06But she was only kept there for his sexual interests.
38:10And she felt that she could not leave, she felt imprisoned.
38:16Lampros eventually escaped Saddam's clutches and fled to the West, where she wrote her memoirs.
38:23Much of what is known about the tyrant's secret sex life comes from her.
38:29Hussein is known for using Viagra all of the time, and this feeds into his sexual sadism.
38:39The sex drive that somebody that's taking Viagra would have would result in multiple demands for sexual encounters.
38:50But because Hussein was a sexual sadist, this also meant that multiple instances of torture, pain and violence would also
39:00be demanded by his sex drive.
39:04So we can see that this relationship between his unsatiated sexual appetite feeds into his violent nature.
39:17Saddam ignored the West's ultimatums to step down.
39:21So, on March 20, 2003, US-led coalition forces invaded Iraq.
39:31On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage
39:40war.
39:40In April, US troops entered Baghdad, revealing the full extent of the wealth and corruption of Saddam Hussein.
39:50Images of the opulence hidden behind the doors of the palaces were shown around the world.
39:56While then you look at Saddam Hussein's life, his houses, his castles, his palaces, his cars, he was lavishing in
40:06gold.
40:07He thinks he built a legacy with his name, he took ownership of the country, he took ownership of the
40:14Iraqi people, and he wanted to continue and maintain that legacy for his future children.
40:20So eventually it would become a monarchy.
40:23He was a textbook oppressive tyrant.
40:27The tyrant was about to be toppled.
40:31In July 2003, US troops killed Saddam's hated sons, Uday and Kusei, in a four-hour shootout.
40:44Then, in December of that year, the ultimate humiliation.
40:49Saddam Hussein is found hiding in a spider hole near his hometown of Tikrit.
40:55It's a miserable hiding place, particularly for a man who built some of the most ostentatious palaces in the Middle
41:01East.
41:02The kitchen was filthy. No palace servants here.
41:06With his reign of terror over, his people were at last free to speak.
41:13This man took reporters to a prison and showed them the crude tools with which he'd been tortured by Saddam's
41:20secret police, and the scars they'd left.
41:24In October 2005, Saddam Hussein was tried before an Iraqi special tribunal for crimes against humanity.
41:34The judge read the charges against Saddam Hussein and his seven co-accused.
41:40Premeditated murder, imprisonment, forced deportation.
41:45Finally, in November 2006, Saddam was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death for the murders of
41:55148 inhabitants of the village of Duzal in 1982.
42:01In reality, deaths at his hands numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but he and his followers were so adept
42:09at destroying evidence that the Duzal murders were the only ones which could be linked directly to him.
42:16On December 30, 2006, aged 69, Saddam Hussein was hanged.
42:24He died as he had lived, violently and defiantly.
42:30Saddam Hussein has been characterised as the madman of the Middle East, but this implies that he was irrational and
42:40uncalculated.
42:42When you say someone is a madman, you're instantly saying, you know, they are irresponsible for the behaviour they create
42:51or they commit, they are irrational, and hence anything that they commit is because of that irrationality.
42:58My opinion is Saddam Hussein was a very calculated man. He was a very smart man.
43:03He was ruthless. He was meticulous. We can't just say it was down to madness. Everything, everything was thought about.
43:16This act, these images broadcast around the globe, came to represent the end of a cruel dictatorship.
43:25He would be seen as not just one of Arab nationalist dictators who caused a lot of damage and destruction,
43:33not just their country but people around, but as someone who had no limits.
43:39And sooner or later, he was going to overextend himself. And the message was, from the message to history, is
43:49that all dictators have their shelf life.
43:53They're used by date. And he's a classic example.
44:26And he's a classic example and he's a classic example.
44:26And then, for a wedding hour, he keeps telling him that all the time and he's still alive, he's still
44:26alive.
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