SADDAM HUSSEIN [1937-2006]

"Words are very powerful, they can get things done for us, but then a word and a gun makes it much easier."

This is an intrinsic belief, the base of all actions of the most powerful man of Middle East, the man who alone is getting to the nerves of the entire Western world – Saddam Hussein. He is a man who is sitting over the pile of world’s deadliest weapons, a man, who, if opens his reservoir of chemical and nuclear weapons, can literally peel off the layers of skin of enemy troops, can turn his rivals into ashes in microseconds.

A son of a poor peasant, Saddam attempted assassination of the Prime Minister of Iraq and was charged and sentenced to death at the age of 20. Escaping from the prison, he became a rebellious leader, and consequently the military President of the Republic of Iraq.

This is the tale of a man who has sustained two deadly wars, one of them lasted for nearly a decade with Iran, and the other against almost half of the world – the Persian Gulf War.

"Life is a daring adventure, or nothing," these words were uttered for some other context, but Saddam Hussein befits them.

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