another thread cites stories that he was one of the guys that trained/controled the 10 and 12 year old kids they sent to the slaughter in the Iran-Iraq war.
They had tried herding animals onto the battlefield to take the brunt of Saddam's army's blows, but the animals got terrified and ran. So, instead of donkeys, they brainwashed children and had them issued chinese made plastic keys, that were billed as keys to heaven and then sent them marching to bear the brunt of the ?Republican Guard bullets.
I remember driving in the mountains outside of Mecca during the Iran/Iraq war. Painted on a lot of big boulders were those "keys to the kingdom." While the rotten house of saud was mouthing their displeasure against the Shiite regime in Teheran in 1981, the serfs of the Magic Kingdom were clearly sympathetic with Iran.