Word: gamal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carved out the bullet himself with a razor dipped in iodine, then disguised himself as a Bedouin tribesman, swam across the Tigris River, stole a donkey and fled across the desert to Syria. He was captured and jailed, but supposedly word of his adventures reached Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was then a charismatic exponent of pan-Arabism. Nasser got Saddam transferred to Cairo, and became another hero...