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For Sale: 82 Metre yacht

Complete with missile launcher and mini submarine. The yacht only has one previous owner, who didn’t even sail it to church on a Sunday – it has its own mosque on board. Low kilometres and government guaranteed sale. It has only had one previous owner. Saddam Hussein.


Here’s the low down from the SMH.

The yacht was built for Saddam 28 years ago, but the Iran-Iraq war – which saw it moved from the southern port of Basra to Saudi Arabia – was among the factors that meant the dictator never savoured its ostentatious facilities.

The vessel became the subject of a legal wrangle when it appeared in the French Riviera city of Nice in autumn 2007, where a British boat dealer tried to sell it for 23.5 million euro ($46.76 million).