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DEPOSED tyrant Saddam Hussein has been taunted in custody with repeated screenings of a South Park film lampooning him as a gay nymphomaniac.

British tabloid The Sun reported that US Marines have been forcing the former Iraqi dictator to watch an offensive caricature of himself in low-brow animated film South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut – on repeat.

The film was banned in Iraq when it opened seven years ago, not least for its depiction of Hussein as a flamboyant and libidinous homosexual.

In the film, Hussein’s evil counterpart is none other than Satan, with whom he shares an erotic relationship.

In one of the few scenes with repeatable dialogue, Hussein remarks in a high-pitched voice: "This is getting me so hot. Rub my nipples while I torture this little piggy."

The makers of South Park – Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who voices the character of Hussein – were reported to have boasted the story at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

"I have it on pretty good information from the Marines," The Sun reported Stone as having said.

"That’s really adding insult to injury. I bet that made him really happy."

Hussein is imprisoned in Iraq under US military guard, where he faces charges over war crimes including the murder of 148 Shiites in the town of Dujail in 1982 and the genocide of tens of thousands of Kurds.

The toppled dictator was admitted to hospital in July on the 17th day of a hunger strike. He has frequently complained of his living conditions in US custody, claiming last December that he was beaten by US guards.

Prosecutors have demanded Hussein receive the death penalty if convicted of the Dujail mass-murder. A verdict in that trial, which ended last month, is expected in October.

Parker and Stone are no strangers to offending high-profile viewers. Earlier this month it was reported that actor Tom Cruise threatened to boycott promotion of his new film Mission Impossible: III if Paramount’s parent company did not cancel the screening of an episode of South Park which lampooned Scientology.

Paramount have since ended their 14-year relationship with the actor.

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