What 20th-century world leader was dubbed “The Tyrant of the Tigris”?

toughynutter

Saddam Hussein "In confident moments, some of Saddam’s Westernized subjects even suggest that the Tyrant of the Tigris will become the Elvis of the Middle East, sighted at odd hours in weird places, inspiring a supernatural shock and awe" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3068365/site/newsweek/ Mar 13 07, 5:43 AM

skysmom65

Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq — died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979 – 2003). Opening his mouth for a tongue depressor, Saddam Hussein looked a bit like Grendel might have if Beowulf had given the monster a dental exam before rending his limbs. Hussein, the fearsome tyrant of the Tigris who murdered thousands of his own people and countless others, who defied the will of the international community for years, found himself saved from a hail of bullets but not the poking and prodding of a U.S. military doctor. How deliciously mundane the images were — a fitting end for a man whose lowly criminality was writ large in his final moments of freedom: boxed beneath the earth, trapped like a rodent fleeing a broom, he reportedly told the US troops, "Don't shoot." http://www.flakmag.com/opinion/grendel.html Mar 13 07, 8:43 AM

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