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A conversation with Iraqi physician Ala Bashir
with Ala Bashir on May 5, 2006
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with Ala Bashir on May 5, 2006
Ala Bashir is an Iraqi plastic surgeon, sculptor, and painter. After gaining attention for his work treating soldiers during the Iraq-Iran War, Bashir became a medical counselor to Saddam Hussein. For more than 15 years, Bashir served the former dictator closely, a time period that is chronicled by the History Channel DVD “Saddam’s Doctor: An Insider’s Story.”
Bashir, who now lives in the United Kingdom, is also the author of “The Insider: Trapped in Saddam’s Brutal Regime.” Publishers Weekly wrote of the book, “As Saddam Hussein’s personal physician, Bashir had unique access to the dictator and his family for 20 turbulent years, and in this darkly comic memoir, he chronicles his time as Hussein’s ‘unwilling confidant,’ taking the reader into presidential palaces, blood-spattered operating rooms and the streets of sanction-era Baghdad.”
