News, Few gather to remember at Saddam's tomb. (president, leader)

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Tucked away amid lush orange farms outside the city of Tikrit, there is a small corner of Iraq where Saddam Hussein is still thought of as the president.

The former Iraqi leader might have been hanged a year ago today, but in his ancestral village of al-Owja, where pilgrims now come to his grave, Tikrit's most famous son is still spoken of in the same awed tones as when he was alive.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...0/wiraq130.xml

[ara^bess]

I guess few was the operative word. Interesting story.