Saddam By Numbers

I know I seem to be obsessing on the whole Saddam thing, but this is the last one... I hope. Found this in The Telegraph:

148 - People murdered on Saddam's orders in Dujail in 1982. He was hanged for this crime against humanity.

5,000 - Civilians killed when Iraqi aircraft dropped a mixture of mustard gas and nerve agents on the Kurdish town of Halabja in March of 1988.

48 - Palaces owned by Saddam furnished with marble, filled with his portraits, and gold toilets seats and taps.

24 - Years in power, from 1979 when he shouldered aside the aging Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, to 2003 when he fled the US-led invasion.

3 - Wives: married cousin Sajida Tulfah in 1963, then Samira Shahbandar and Nidal al-Hamdani after their husbands were made to divorce them.

2 - Sons-in-law murderd on Saddam's orders in 1996. They had defected to Jordan, but were persuaded to return after he gave them guarantees of safety.

1.7 million - Dead on both sides after Saddam started the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, one of the longest wars of attrition in the 20th century.

69 - Widely accepted age when he died, although his precise birth date is disputed. He said April 28, 1937, others claimed 1935.

3 - Professional Saddam "doubles" employed to minimize the risk of assassination, undergoing plastic surgery and being trained to mimic his gestures.

30 - Types of torture allegedly approved by Saddam, including gouging out eyes, cutting off sex organs, and roasting victims over a flame.

$2 Billion - Saddam's personal fortune as estimated by Forbes, the US business journal, in February 2003.

8 - Months on the run after the fall of Baghdad, from April 9th to December 13th, 2003, when US soldiers caught him hiding in a "spider hole" near Tikrit.

0 - Number of weapons of mass destruction found after Saddam's downfall. President Bush & British Prime Minister Tony Blair went to war claiming Saddam had WMD.