Book description
In SADDAM HUSSEIN: THE POLITICS OF REVENGE, the author draws on his own
knowledge of and extensive contacts within the Arab world to produce
both a thorough biography and a penetrating psychological profile of the
most powerful and unpredictable man in the world today. He explains why
Saddam behaves as he does by suggesting that his life has been marked by
a series of personal quests: for recognition after being orphaned and
brought up by a destitute uncle; for control of his country; for
leadership of the Arab world; for mastery of the technology of
destruction, and who now fights for Iraq's survival. This is the
chilling story of how the man who, with the encouragement of western
governments, made his country the most advanced in the Arab world in the
1970s, and through personal ambition led it to disaster at the end of
the 1980s, now fights for its survival. 'A brilliant Arab-Western
examination - by one uniquely placed - of the psychology and makeup of
one of the world's political phenomena, in clear historical context,
written with pace, detail, and a host of witnesses and sources' SUNDAY
TRIBUNE 'Powerful. Aburish provides shameful details of Western
complicity, cynical and mostly clandestine, in Saddam's reign of terror'
HERALD 'The hypocrisy and amorality of Western policy make uncomfortable
reading Aburish's unmatched contacts in the Middle East enable him to
provide a rare glimpse into the secret world of Saddam. A chilling
biography' OBSERVER Said K. Aburish was born in the biblical village
of Bethany near Jerusalem in 1935. He has been a consultant to two Arab
governments, and is now a journalist and author living in London. His
books include Children of Bethany; The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall
of the House of Saud; and Arafat: From Defender to Dictator.
