Hi! I am Gideon Strauss's daughter, and I would just like to comment:

I did not know that there was no such word as trodding! That is a surprise (for me). Although this is out of the blue, I like commenting when I read someone's blog for the first time and read something "significant" to me. Thanx!

Hi, Tala! "Trod" is the past tense of "tread," so he should have written "without treading." Thanks for commenting; I like finding new visitors here!

The Economist also calls him ``Mr Hussein''.

At the time of the First War With That Guy, I read something (possibly in The New Republic) mentioning that Iraq has numerous musea, stadia and whatnot called Saddam This and Saddam That.
His original name was (if memory serves) Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti.

Absolutely correct. But after a while, when Baghdad was filled with his relatives and other cronies from Tikrit, all surnamed al-Tikriti, he banned use of that name to quiet the murmuring.