Has Saddam Hussein successfully rebuilt the ancient city of Babylon?
No. Saddam Hussein had grandiose schemes to rebuild the ancient city of Babylon south of Baghdad, and he spent great sums attempting it, but the effort is not succeeding. Tourists are not going there, and the ancient city has not been rebuilt as envisioned.
Les explains that ancient Babylon and the present-day world system are not necessarily one and the same. He notes that some theologians and Bible teachers expect ancient Babylon to be rebuilt as the center of end-time activity, but he disagrees. He points to Scripture saying that once Babylon was destroyed it would become only a habitation of wild beasts. Regarding Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq, Les says he had grandiose schemes to rebuild ancient Babylon south of Baghdad and had already spent great sums trying to put things together, but it is not going; tourists are not going to it. Les says he cannot quite envision the ancient city of Babylon being rebuilt, though he admits he may be wrong. He then turns to Jeremiah 51:7, where Babylon is called a golden cup in the LORD's hand that made all the earth drunken, referring to Nebuchadnezzar's empire that covered the then-known civilized earth, and the nations drank of her wine and became mentally affected.