Arab of Vast Ambition: Saddam Hussein - http://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/05/international/05HUSS.html
Profile by Elaine Sciolino, published in the New York Times a few days after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. [Requires free registration.] |
Baghdad's Strongman - http://www.nytimes.com/1982/07/15/international/middleeast/15HUSS.html
Profile of Saddam Hussein, published in the New York Times in 1982. |
BBC News - Saddam Hussein Profile - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1100529.stm
Profile of the man who has been president of Iraq for the past two decades and who "has the dubious distinction of being the world's best known and most hated Arab leader." |
Guardian Unlimited - Full Coverage: The Trial of Saddam Hussein - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/saddam/0,16627,1594992,00.html
Ongoing news, comment and analysis includes interactive guides, who's who, photos and timelines. |
PBS - Frontline: The Survival of Saddam - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/
Transcripts, video clips, photos, documents and other materials from a documentary on President Hussein of Iraq. |
Saddam, Tell Me About Your Mum - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,839469,00.html
Extracts from an interview with former CIA psychiatrist Dr Jerrold Post, focusing on the childhood of the Iraqi leader. |
Tales of the Tyrant - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/05/bowden.htm
Profile of Saddam Hussein, by Mark Bowden, published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine. |
The Personal History of Saddam Hussein - http://www.emergency.com/hussein1.htm
Biography presenting a negative perspective on Iraq's leader. |
Twilight of a Tyrant - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,901167,00.html
Peter Beaumont pieces together Saddams security measures and life style, interviews with schoolfriends and talks to exiles and intelligence experts to explore the presidentīs mindset. The Observer. |