When an Iraqi lieutenant ordered him off the bus, Saddam Hussein thought his number was up. Limbs quaking, he obediently trailed after the soldier — who then stood sharply to attention and saluted him.
“He chanted songs to the glory of the former president. Then, happy with his joke, he told me to get back in the bus, to my great relief,” said the Iraqi photographer with the same name as the dictator who was executed in December 2006.
The man with the infamous namesake is based in Fallujah, the town which symbolized the anti-American uprising after 2003, and he hasn’t always had an easy life. But he insists the name has done him more good than harm despite the other Saddam’s evil reputation.
He was born in 1979, the year that Saddam Hussein came to power. With his father absent, his mother and aunts failed to agree on a first name for the eldest of seven boys and it was the doctor who suggested calling him Saddam when he learned that the family name is Hussein.
Although he looks nothing like the former dictator, the name brought certain advantages to the youngster. “In exams, the teachers gave me 10 extra marks because of my name,” he admitted, adding that it also helped with girls.
When Saddam was overthrown in April 2003, the younger man’s mother begged him to change his name but he refused. “It has served me well,” he said.(AFP)
一位伊拉克陸軍中尉命令坐在巴士上的薩達姆．海珊下車，他以為他死期將近。他雙腿顫抖，順從地跟在這位士官後頭──然後這位中尉突然立正站好向他敬禮。
這位和二ＯＯ六年十二月被處決的獨裁者海珊同名同姓的伊拉克攝影師說：「他高唱頌讚這位伊拉克前總統的歌曲，接著，對自己開這個玩笑感到洋洋得意的他叫我回到車上，這才令我大大鬆了一口氣。」
這位和惡名昭彰的海珊同名同姓的攝影師住在法魯加鎮，這個小鎮二ＯＯ三年後成為反美暴動的象徵，此後他的好日子不再。但他堅稱，雖然海珊惡名在外，但這個名字對他來說還是利多於弊。
他出生於一九七九年，同年海珊上任掌權。身為七兄弟老大的他，父親不在身邊，母親和阿姨們又對該取什麼名字意見不同，結果是醫生聽說他們家姓海珊，才建議她們叫他薩達姆。
雖然他長得和那位前獨裁者一點也不像，但這個名字還是為這個年輕人帶來某種程度的好處。他承認：「考試時，老師會因為我的名字多送我十分。」此外，這個名字也讓他在女孩間吃得開。
當海珊政權在二ＯＯ三年四月被推翻時，這位年輕人的母親懇求他改名，但他拒絕了。他說：「這個名字對我助益很大。」（法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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