How Colonel Nasser created the Middle-Eastern 'dictators' club'
As Baghdad correspondent for The Telegraph after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I hired “Colonel Ahmed”, an ex-Republican Guard officer, as a driver-cum-bodyguard. He was pleasant, punctual and handy in a scrap, but – like many in Saddam’s deposed elite – not convinced that his fellow Iraqis were ready for democracy.
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