has been dead many times and brought back to life. saddam hussein s former right-hand man, reports he was killed, but also photographic and video evidence we ve been looking at that do show what appear to be the body of an elderly man with a beard that is clearly dyed red and does appear to resemble the former baathist official who famously called a kuwaiti official, before the u.s. invasion of iraq, a monkey, and a puppet of the u.s. at an arab summit. what is striking about this, if, in fact, he was killed, it highlights the fact that a man who was dubbed the king of clubs in the u.s. military s deck of cards of most wanted, iraqi outlaws, a man who had a $10 million u.s. bounty on his head, succeeded in surviving in iraq, which has been a very turbulent