Evening Standard - London, April 10th, 2003
IT WAS ONCE a small, neglected backwater town, its people struggling against endemic disease and illiteracy, while lives were often cut short by outbreaks of tribal violence. But Tikrit, which lies on the mud banks of the Tigris, 100 miles north of Baghdad, is Saddam Hussein's home town and in the 24 years since he came to power in 1979, it has been transformed. The process began when a small group of Tikritis took power in the 1968 Ba'athist-led revolution. It was with the help of family and clan members from Tikrit that Saddam ascended to power 11 years later, when he succeeded his cousin A...
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