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By Hussein, Saddam; Hussein, Saddam; Coughlin, Con

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It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the ofﬁcial accounts of Saddam’s life provide an altogether more lurid description of how he came to leave the family home to be reunited with Khairallah. The account provided by Fuad Matar (for example) in his ofﬁcially sanctioned biography is ﬁlled with drama. According to Matar (who was, after all, only repeating what he had been told by Saddam himself ) Saddam’s family wanted him to become a farmer and believed there was no point in him receiving a formal education.

If Saddam’s experience with his stepfather helped to form his character, the period spent living with his uncle in Tikrit and Baghdad undoubtedly contributed to his political outlook. While Khairallah himself was no more than a bit player in the wider struggle among the Iraqi people for the right to selfdetermination, his active participation in the great nationalistic currents of the day made an indelible mark on the young Saddam, not least because Khairallah’s activities were to deprive him of his uncle’s company for ﬁve crucial years during his childhood.

The gossipmongers have thrived on the fact that, whereas Saddam constructed a huge mausoleum in his mother’s memory 4 saddam: his rise and fall after her death in 1982, no such monument was ever constructed for his father, nor is there any record either of his death or of where he is buried. As a consequence, most accounts of Saddam’s life have suggested that his father had either departed the family home before the child was born, or that he departed soon after. Various notions have been advanced to explain this absence, such as the suggestion that he died of natural causes, not itself an uncommon event among such an indigent community.

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