Hiding Saddam Hussein

Twenty years later, the incredible testimony resurfaces from the folds of history of the man who hid Saddam Hussein in his garden for eight months.

During the Iraq War, an unwelcome guest knocks on the door of a simple farmer: it’s Saddam Hussein, wanted, on the run from family, friends, and most importantly, from 150,000 American soldiers. gainst his will, the farmer is forced to let in the former president, now deposed, and to dig him a hiding place in the garden. Thus begins one of the largest manhunts of recent decades.

The images of the dictator emerging from the ground in 2003 are iconic, but until now no one knew the fantastic story of that hiding place, carved out under a flowerbed. Today, twenty years later, the man who dug the hole and provided shelter to Saddam for eight months entrusts his incredible story to the camera. The farmer has no choice but to become a hairdresser, doctor, and bodyguard. And something akin to a friendship seems to grow between them as they eat together and wash each other’s backs. The farmer refuses to violate his duty as a host, even when the United States puts a bounty of 25 million dollars on him.