“I won’t tell you everything,” Namiq says, over and over, during the course of a couple of hours. Four of his brothers cook and wait tables for customers watching a big flat-screen TV showing Turkish dramas and men’s volleyball. The restaurant is a small cinder-block shack, with a couple of grills and a few plastic tables set outside.
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Once a driver and an aide to Hussein, he has spent the past few years driving a taxi, finally saving enough to open his family restaurant a few weeks ago.Īt his restaurant on the riverbank, Namiq greets an American reporter graciously, offering grilled chicken and sweet tea on a sweltering evening. Namiq says he and Qais were arrested along with Hussein and spent a miserable six months in Abu Ghraib prison. military was searching for him, it became convinced, correctly, that he would find shelter among his Tikriti clansmen in these lush orchards of date palms and orange and pear trees.
Hussein was born in a village near Tikrit, just north of this little town on the banks of the Tigris River. “He said, ‘You might be captured and tortured.’ But in our Arab tribal tradition, and by Islamic law, when someone needs help, we help him.” “He came here and he asked us for help and I said yes,” says Namiq, 41, wearing a long white dishdasha robe. But for whatever reason, Namiq now folds his tall, broad-shouldered frame into a little plastic chair, tugs on a cigarette and talks about hiding the man his family had known for decades. A map showing Saddam Hussein’s hometown and where he was captured.
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