Telegraph:
Tucked away amid lush orange farms outside the city of Tikrit, there is a small corner of Iraq where Saddam Hussein is still thought of as the president.
On the first anniversary of his death, however, the final resting place of the man whose last words were "Iraq is nothing without me" shows little sign of becoming the shrine that many feared it would.
December 19 marked a year in the Muslim religious calendar since his death, and Mr al-Nasseri, expecting a big turn-out, laid on free posters of Saddam.
Yet the supporters who gathered to commemorate by laying flowers and reading the Koran numbered only in the dozens, not the hundreds of thousands that Saddam's deluded ego might have expected.
It has been the same, by all accounts, for most of the rest of the year - visitor numbers seldom reach double figures, and on quieter days are down to just two or three.
