hussein the son of . allegedly designated by mohammed to be is only successor that there's not very. many on under saddam a million she has been detained and many of them are assassinated and thrown into mass graves and. i myself your servant spent twelve years in iraqi jails my family only received news of me one or two years after i was released. i was even afraid of my own brother i thought he was an officer who come to interrogate me all of us we suffered and the prisons were filled with shias on me when i be. leaving caballo is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of shia month has fallen for the glory of the prophet hussein mohammed their. little bit. possible. on the baghdad bass run highway in the middle of the desert a faithful taxi finally gives up the ghost. i feel suddenly vulnerable alone in the wilderness. as if by magic a man appears from the sands to help us. perhaps this is the renowned desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the men who maintained the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. and.