Lingering legacy: A young Iraqi girl bending over Saddam’s tomb in the village of Awja, near Tikrit. — AFP
BAGHDAD: Dozens of Iraqis crowding a Baghdad street fought to glimpse the red-haired man in a glass coffin, hoping to witness the end of a long-feared member of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The furore over the dead man – who might be Saddam’s deputy Izzat al-Duri, though his identity has still not been determined – is yet another sign of the influence the dictator exercises in Iraq more than 12 years after his overthrow.
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