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Trapped in Saddam's Brutal Regime
Abacus
August 2005
327 pages
ISBN: 034911935X
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Non-Fiction Memoir
An extraordinary account by Saddam Hussein’s physician and
confidant, who, for 20 years, lived and worked within the
dictator’s inner circle. Ala Bashir, former Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery at Baghdad University and Iraq’s most highly
decorated doctor, was Saddam Hussein’s personal physician
from 1983 to 2003. From his vantage point as a reluctant
"Saddam favorite," Bashir observed and tracked political
events in Baghdad. He also witnessed and recorded the hidden
life of Saddam’s regime and family—the fear and the
killings, the partying and profligacy, and the total
disregard for human life and dignity. When Bashir left Iraq
in 2003, he brought his diaries with him. Based on these
secret documents, The Insider is the astonishing testimony
of a man who found himself an unwilling confidant to one of
the most infamous dictators in history.
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