Interesting story from Egyptian Newspaper AL-AHRAM about Saddam's ex doctor

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Interesting story. Have not seen it in any English Language newspaper.
[Never again

15 -21 May 2003 Issue No. 638
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875](http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/638/re11.htm)

A disturbing self-portrait of Iraqi orthopaedist and artist, Dr Ibrahim Abdel-Sattar Al-Basri hangs on the wall of his clinic in Baghdad. The painting depicts the subject seated on a chair, looking angry. His right hand holds a glass of Cognac, the glass cracked under pressure of this fist, the left hand balled into a blood-drained fist.

It is the artistic expression of a rare man, one of the few to have been catapulted to the height of power by Saddam Hussein, later only to experience – and survive – the darker facets of his dictatorship.

Dr Al-Basri served Saddam Hussein as personal physician and fitness advisor for more than a decade, before falling out of favour and disappearing for 12 dark years