Hussein: power without pity // The traits U.S. hates inspire awe in Iraqis

Chicago Sun-Times | February 10, 1991| | Copyright

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is everywhere and nowhere, as familiar as a face on a television screen, as elusive as rumor.

Staring impassively, he speaks to the world one moment from an anonymous house in the Baghdad suburbs, and he speaks in the next moment in heated communiques from a bunker.

He dons public masks with an actor's flourish in the statesman's suits, the desert leader's flowing tribal jellabas and the commander's fatigues.

Unpredictability is his weapon. It's as integral to his survival as his penchant for secrecy and his reliance on violence as a tool of everyday ...

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