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Michael Trotter First Wrote Songs in Saddam Hussein's Palace in the War. Now He's Healing from PTSD Through Music (Exclusive)
The War and Treaty singer opens up to PEOPLE about how the Army "overshadows the purity" of his musical journey Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been ...
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Kissing in Babylon: The ancient site giving young Iraqis their freedom
When Saddam Hussein was in power, his modern palace and gardens at Babylon were out of bounds for ordinary Iraqis. Now they attract visitors from across Iraq, apart from during the heat of the ...
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Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
Some suggest the gardens formed a part of the royal palace in Babylon itself ... but from the 1980s, when Saddam Hussein—then dictator of Iraq—set out to create a reconstruction of its ...
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Meet the Army rabbi who led Yom Kippur services in Saddam Hussein’s palace
(JTA) — Near the start of the Iraq War in 2003, David Goldstrom found himself leading a Yom Kippur service for about 50 soldiers in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in Tikrit, Iraq.