Lavish lifestyles on display in Tikrit

Thursday, April 17, 2003

TIKRIT, Iraq -- In a biblical landscape of green pastures and adobe villages, Saddam Hussein turned his hometown into a city of ornate palaces, six-lane highways and blue-domed mosques.

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