Psychoanalysing Saddam

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Psychoanalysing Saddam

By Clare Murphy
BBC News Online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3323967.stm

Saddam - meaning he who confronts - ultimately decided it was wise not to be too aggressive when US soldiers broke into his hideaway.
The apparently meek and mild surrender of a man who looked like a tired tramp has met some surprise from those who assumed that the once defiant Iraqi leader, bent on securing a place in history, would go out in a gunfight and a blaze of glory.

But Saddam Hussein has long been one of the world's most complex and unfathomable characters, a melee of seeming contradictions.

The man who gassed his own people and despised Britain was the same one who composed romantic fiction while enjoying an old British favourite - Quality Street chocolates.

Staying alive

It is precisely these contradictions which have made psychological profiling of the former president difficult, and are thwarting efforts to gauge the current mental status of the imprisoned former leader, who in the past six months has lost his position, his sons and has been humiliated on international television.

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