http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20040105/od_nm/odd_saudi_saddam_dcRIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian man who called his son Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) 14 years ago is now desperately trying to have the name changed. Mohsen al-Harithy first asked the relevant authorities to change his son's name in 1990, when the forces of the now-deposed Iraqi president invaded neighboring Kuwait, the Saudi
English-language Arab News newspaper reported Monday.
But the boy's file was destroyed by an Iraqi missile attack
(ironic huh?) on the civil status department in the Saudi capital Riyadh in the 1991 war to liberate Kuwait.
Saddam, once regarded as a
hero :shrug: by Arabs for adopting policies against the United States and Israel, was captured by U.S. troops in December without a fight. A U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam in April.