 That evening, Mr Deputy, as Saddam Hussein was known then, out-drank the entire Fleet Street mission to Baghdad.In 1973, Darwish became a Middle East-based correspondent, and went on to cover that year's Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syria attacked Israel to recapture land lost in the 1967 Six-Day War.Adel Darwish is currently the Political Editor of the "Middle East" Group, based at the Parliamentary Press Gallery at the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in Westminster.