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Saddam Hussein: Portrait of a dictator as a young man National Post reporter Patrick Graham recently visited Al-Ouja in Iraq, where Saddam Hussein grew up. He also travelled to Syria, where he found Ibrahim Zobedi, one of the few to have been friends with Saddam in his youth and lived to talk about it. - - - Ibrahim Zobedi leans back in his chair and recalls his childhood friend, Saddam Hussein. "We used to go fishing with dynamite and the fishermen would always tell us to make sure our stomach and legs were out of the water," says Mr. Zobedi...