On a cool December evening in 1996, a black Mercedes pulled up along Baghdad’s Mansour Street, its engine purring like a house cat. The street was quiet, mostly emptied of traffic as it often was by nightfall, when government curfews and fear ensured silence.
The car’s appearance was routine to some—a luxury vehicle with tinted windows, known to be associated with the ruling elite. From it stepped a man instantly recognised in the inner circle of power. He was Uday Saddam Hussein, Saddam’s eldest son and heir apparent, though he bore little of his father’s calculated political control.
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