The man who ruled Iraq with an iron clench hand for a fourth of a century was hanged at first light on 30 December, charming a significant number of the nation's for quite some time abused larger part Shiites and symbolizing the mortification of Saddam's kindred Sunnis.
US president George W Shrubbery at that point by and by approving the prompt exchange of the tyrant's body on an American military helicopter from Baghdad toward the northern city of Tikrit, close Al-Awjah.
Be that as it may, today, riddle and uncertainty hanging over the last resting spot of a man whose exceptionally name for quite a long time filled Iraqis with fear.
Is his body still in Al-Awjah or would it say it was uncovered, and, assuming this is, where to?
Sheik Manaf Ali al-Nida, a pioneer of the Albu Nasser clan to which Saddam's group has a place, has clutched a letter his family marked when they got the body, concurring that Saddam is covered immediately.
Saddam, 69, was let go before sunrise in the tomb he had appointed years sooner.
The place transformed into a lavishly decorated journey site to which supporters and gatherings of neighborhood school youngsters would rush on his birthday on 28 April.
Today, guests require exceptional authorization to enter, the site lies in remains, and Sheik Nida has been compelled to leave the town and look for asylum in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Since the 2003 US-drove attack, his clan has been "persecuted in light of the fact that we were close" to Saddam, he stated, wearing the customary robes and keffiyeh headscarf of Iraq's clans.
"Is it ordinary that we should pay such a substantial cost for a great many generations since we're from a similar family?"
Exploded
At Saddam's grave, the principally Shiite paramilitaries of the Hashed al-Shaabi coalition, entrusted with security in the territory, say the tomb was annihilated in an Iraqi air strike after the Islamic State jihadist bunch posted sharpshooters on its rooftop.
Sheik Nida was not there to witness the impact but rather he is persuaded that Saddam's tomb was "opened and exploded".
Jaafar al-Gharawi, the Hashed's security boss, demanded: "The body is still there."
One of his warriors, in any case, guessed that Saddam's banished girl Hala had flown in on a private plane and whisked her dad's body away to Jordan.
"Incomprehensible!" said a college educator and long-lasting understudy of the Saddam time, who declined to give his name.
"Hala has never returned to Iraq," he said. "(The body) could have been assumed to a mystery position... no one knows who moved it or where."
On the off chance that that was the situation, Saddam's family would have firmly monitored the mystery of the area, he included.
Saddam's tomb could have endured an indistinguishable destiny from that of his dad, at the passageway to the town, which was unceremoniously exploded.
Be that as it may, a few, including Baghdad occupant Abu Samer, trust the Iraqi strongman is still out there.
"Saddam's not dead," he said. "It was one of his duplicates who was hanged."
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