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Sadam Hussein's Yacht is Reinvented as a Hotel | Maritime Herald
The lack of a buyer has led the Iraqi authorities to convert the “Basora Breeze” (breeze from Basra), also known until 2003 as “Qadissiyat Saddam” into a hotel. This super yacht of Saddam Hussein has a presidential suite, 17 guest rooms, 18 crew cabins, clinic, gold taps, a theater, prayer room, several swimming pools, secret submarine, heliport … All with a style of pure opulence, full of gold, curtains and luxury so much did an Iraqi dictator like that, however, he never sailed aboard it. The history of this 82-meter yacht built in Denmark in 1981 is marked by war since in 1986 it was moored in Saudi Arabia to be safe from the conflict between Iraqis and Iranians and then was transferred to the Mediterranean to appear in Nice where he spent several years before the French justice granted the property to the Government of Baghdad and returned to the port of Basra.