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January 4, 2007
From Hussein, a Florid Farewell to the Iraqi People
By MARC SANTORA and JOHN F. BURNS
BAGHDAD, Jan. 3 — The dictator sat alone in his cell, three years in American custody. His beard had gone gray, his sons were dead and the gallows were being readied.
Saddam Hussein in those final days turned to poetry, so often his...