Saddam paranoia was to trust absolutely no-one, in short, everyone is a potential enemy. He need to catch them first and wait eagerly to destroy them, children are the only one non-committed to hunt him.
Saddam Hussein in 1973 was deputy president of Iraq; the president was Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr. Saddam was the power behind the throne, instrumental in implementing the policies of repression, terror and ruthlessness. Just the same as Genghis Khan, Mohammad, Nero but playing it in modern time. He had Machine-Gun in his hand to reinforce his terror challenging those who might think retaliation. He established a ‘Departement of Internal Security’, the official state torture-service, run by Nadlum Kazar, a notorious psychopath, who ran the central interrogation unit at Qasr ( Palace) al Nihayyah in Baghdad. It was there, in 1973, that a survivor saw Saddam Hussein, Deputy President of Iraq, bodily pick up a still struggling prisoner and tossing him into a vat of acid, watching fascinated as the wriggling man dissolved.
The Baath State that Saddam inevitably inherited on 16 July 1979 was well on the way to being run on the only emotional lines he understood, those of terror. He had systematically eradicated everyone who posed a threat, real or imagined, to be.
Under Saddam, torture became a customary experience, used not to extract information, but to remodel the very thoughts of the populace. Thus torturers saw themselves as creative artists, engineers of the human soul. Exacting confessions to non-existent crimes is a mean of compelling victims to surrender their individually, to accept without question the truth as presented by the state. In order to heighten the impression of an organization as omniscient and divine as its leader and to cultivate the necessary sense of sin and guilt within the people, the security services are anonymous and select victims at random. No explanations are offered; the event is efficiently calculated to suggest unimaginable horrors. “The pattern is for agents to pick someone up from work or at night from his house of what one assumes to be a normal not serious issue, the corpse is brought back weeks or may be months later and delivered to the head of the family in a sealed box. A death certificate is produced with a signature to the effect that the person has died of fire, swimming or other such accidents. Someone is allowed to accompany the coffin for a ceremony, but at no time are they allowed to see the corpse. The cost of proceedings is demanded in advance.
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Acid baths are commonly used to make thousands of corpse disappear. Amnesty International has detailed thirty methods of torture in blood and tears used in Iraq, from beating to mutilation, from rape to electricution, including the gouging out of eyes, the cutting off noses, breasts, penises and limbs. Heavy-metal poisoning is a favored means of killing off undesirables. Lead and thallium are administered to prisoners in soft drinks during uneventful but deliberately prolonged interrogation. Children are routinely tortured to extract confessions from their parents. In 1985, three hundred children were held at Fusailyya Prison, where they were whipped, sexually abused and given electric shocks. In order to assist their work, the security forces have become master players of the rumor machine, their eyes can see more than expected. They use it to create the enemy within, which they must flush out, and then use it again to spread rumors of the horrendous punishments that traitors face. A constant stream of videos showing confessions, trials and executions are released to the public. Baath party officials are required to take part in executions and filmed doing so, thus binding themselves together in responsibility with “blood cement”. Saddam will remain a symbol of a vigrous leader building his power among dark Satanic mills.