Uday had, in fact, shot up a party, killing several people and wounding several more. Saddam recounted to his guards that his son Uday once made a “terrible mistake” that made Saddam “very angry”. One story about disciplining children was memorable. Several of the guards had children, and Saddam would share anecdotes from his own fatherhood experience. Saddam seemed genuinely interested in his guards’ lives.
“He supposed it made Saddam less intimidating, that he could yield to the siren call of a sugary muffin the way anyone else might,” Bardenwerper writes. One of the Super Twelve specialists noted that Saddam was especially given to sweets. If the omelet was “torn,” he would reject it, according to the book. He was meticulous about his food, too, he ate his breakfast in sections, first an omelet, then a muffin, followed by fresh fruit.
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Saddam enjoyed tending to a scrubby patch of dirt at one corner of his outdoor area, watering the weeds and “treating them more like beautiful flowers than the ugly growths they were,” Bardenwerper writes. Among the guards was the author of the book. However, the crew apparently bonded with Saddam too – right to his bitter end, the report said. The 12 American soldiers guarding Saddam initially forged a bond among themselves during their six months as the Iraqi dictator’s private guards.
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As he awaited trial in Baghdad, Saddam was watched over by a group of US soldiers from the 551st Military Police Company, who came to call themselves ‘The Super Twelve’. Saddam, who ruled Iraq for three decades, was hanged in 2006 at the age of 69.
The dictator’s humble last days, and the experiences of his American guards, are recounted in Will Bardenwerper’s new book, The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid, the New York Post reported. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein spent his final days listening to American singer Mary J Blige, eating muffins and telling anecdotes to US prison guards whom he befriended, according to a new book.
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