Saddam Hussein's yacht : too old, too kitsch...

The 269-foot Saddam Hussein's yacht was on the market for $34,450,000 with broker Burgess months ago.
According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, the Iraki interim government cannot find a purchaser despite an important price reduction: the new asking price is now euros 23,000,000.
Official Iraki government adviser reported recently that even the Russian mafia find the yacht too kitsch...



"Al Mansur", the previous presidential yacht rested adrift in a Basra port after US Navy pilots dropped small bombs on the yacht three times during the Irak war.

Superyacht brokerage: Saddam Hussein's yacht back on the market

Originally named Qadisiyah Saddam, Al Yamamah , after an ancient Arab victory, the vessel was renamed Ocean Breeze after Saddam’s overthrow and finally Basra Breeze after the Iraqi Government won a long court battle.

The 272ft yacht built by a Helsingor shipyard features marble arches, gold faucets, a bulletproof banquet room which seats 200, an operating room and medical suite plus a secret passage running her entire length that would have allowed Saddam to escape to a fast patrol boat...

Basra Breeze is for sale at £20m.


Source: The Times of London

Saddam Hussein's 270ft superyacht is heading back to Iraq

Saddam's yacht for sale with Burgess for 38,000,000 euros

According to the Miror.co.uk website: "Saddam Hussein's 270ft superyacht is heading back to Iraq after the Government won a long court battle.

Brokers had wanted to sell the £17million craft - which has everything from a mosque to a mini-submarine and missile launcher - to British or American millionaires, claiming Saddam gave it to the Saudi royal family and then King Abdullah of Jordan.

Cayman island firm Sudeley, part-owned by King Abdullah, told a French commercial court in Nice that it is the legal owner.

But Iraq said it belonged to them.

Now the court - where the yacht is moored close to Saddam's abandoned villas - has ruled Sudeley failed to produce "a single document that establishes ownership by King Abdullah". Amir-Aslani, Iraqi counsel in Paris, said: "Ownership has been ceded to Iraq and our ambassador has come to Nice to put the Iraqi ensign on the boat."

The vessel is an astonishing testament to the tyrant's playboy lifestyle.

It is decorated with mahogany, gold, silver and marble, has a helicopter pad, health clinic with operating theatre, prayer rooms, fountains, gold tapped bathrooms, Jacuzzis, steam rooms, hi-tech entertainment and games cabins. Up to 200 could banquet in a bulletproof glass atrium.

Built in Denmark in 1981, it was named Qadissivat Saddam after a victory over the Persians in 637AD.

Renamed Basra Breeze, it is due to sail to Iraq in days."