FOUR DICTATORS — Part 1: Saddam Hussein (The First to Fall)

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In 2008, Muammar Gaddafi warned the other Arab leaders: your turn is next. What happened to Saddam awaits you too. Three years later, Gaddafi was dead. This is the story of the four Middle Eastern rulers who tried to reject the American-led order — and what happened to each of them. Part 1: Saddam Hussein, from the 1979 Khuld Hall purge to the spider hole near Tikrit, December 2003. ▶ Part 2 — Gaddafi. Coming soon.