Article: GULF WAR 2: SADDAM HUSSEIN, DICTATOR, 1937-200? A life of evil; RAISED BY A NAZI SYMPATHISER, TYRANT WHO MURDERED THOUSANDS.(News)

Byline: GILL SWAIN

IN THE dusty playground the chanting children's voices grew louder and louder, ringing inside the head of a dark-haired boy who stood alone by a crumbling school wall.

"Bastard, bastard, bastard," the children spat.

The boy tried to run but the taunting continued - just as it did most days for him in the village of Al-Ouja near Tikrit in north central Iraq.

But on this sweltering hot summer's day the six-year-old had had enough.

The lonely, taciturn child slowly bent down, picked up an iron bar lying on the ...

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