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    Controversy over the two yachts of "Saddam Hussein" and what the invasion and time did to them

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    Agence France-Presse published a report on the extravagant yachts of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, twenty years after the American invasion, and shed light on what time and the 2003 war had done to them.


    In the city of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], in the far south of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], a distance of only about 500 meters separates "Al --[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]," Saddam's yacht that was hit by raids by US planes in 2003, and the "[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Breeze" yacht, which was placed at the disposal of the Maritime Studies Center.

    One of them floats rusty in the middle of the river, while the second is now open to visitors.






    The "[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] breeze", which Saddam never sailed, is moored on one of the docks of the Shatt al-Arab, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This yacht has been open to visitors since last January, three days a week.

    "Everyone who visited the presidential yacht was stunned by the lavishness of the previous regime," said Sajjad Kazem, a professor at the Center for Marine Sciences at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] University.

    And time stopped on board this boat. In a small room, old telephones still lay on a large desk. In the Presidential Suite, a king-size canopy bed, elegant bedside lamps, old-fashioned sofas, and a large dressing table. As for the bathrooms, they are equipped with gold washbasins.

    This is not surprising, since [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/59559/%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85 %D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86/ar/]Saddam Hussein[/url], who ruled [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] between 1979 and 2003, was known for his "outrageous extravagance."

    The 82-meter-long yacht, made in Denmark and delivered to Saddam in 1981, can accommodate 30 passengers and a crew of 35.

    The yacht includes 13 rooms, three meeting rooms, and a helipad. It also has a secret passage leading to a submarine, allowing escape in the event of danger, as recorded on an information board.

    "At a time when the Iraqi people were living the scourge of wars because of Saddam and the suffocating economic blockade, Saddam owned such a yacht," says Kazem, 48 years old.

    Fearing reprisals during the Iran --[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] war in the eighties, Saddam, who did not use the yacht, handed it over to the royal family in Saudi Arabia, before the yacht ended up in Jordan, as Kazem mentions.

    In 2008, the boat, which was anchored in Nice, became at the center of a legal battle, as the Iraqi authorities claimed its ownership after it was offered for sale for $ 35 million by a company based in the Cayman Islands.

    University professor [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/3884477454/%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3 %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A/ar/]Abbas Al-Maliki[/url], who came to visit the yacht, says, "What I liked are the old things, such as faxes and old telephones. They brought me back in memory, to before the Internet."

    And the man added, "I wish the former regime had cared about these matters in order to serve the people and not for the sake of serving its personal interests."

    As for Al --[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]'s yacht, it is still half submerged with its rusty hull in the [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/2915224232/%D9%86%D9%87%D8%B1 %D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86/ar/]Shatt Al-Arab River[/url] in the center of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].

    The yacht, which is 120 meters long and weighs more than 7,000 tons, was made in Finland and delivered to [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in 1983, according to the website of its Danish designer, Knud E Hansen. It can accommodate 32 passengers and a crew of 65.

    The yacht was moored in the waters of the Gulf, and before the American invasion, Saddam moved the yacht to the waters of the Shatt al-Arab "in order to protect it from strikes by American planes," but the plan "failed," as the marine engineer Ali Muhammad, who works on a yacht, explains, "

    In March 2003, the International Coalition planes bombed Al --[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]'s yacht.

    Qahtan Al-Obaid, director of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Governorate Antiquities and Heritage Inspection, explains that the yacht "was bombed more than once over more than one day... It was subjected to several raids. I think it was bombed three times at different times, but it did not sink."

    Al-Obaid says that the yacht began to overturn "because of the theft of the pumps in the engine rooms. There were openings through which water entered. Water leaked into the engine rooms, which led to its overturning."

    He added that "recovering it is very expensive and difficult. The yacht is large and needs to be cut into parts and then lifted."

    In a country ravaged by war for years, the authorities have in recent years launched a campaign to salvage the wreckage of small boats that sank in the Shatt al-Arab.
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