I have heard a few times in the news that Saddam Hussein built not
only palaces for his sons, but also personal airports.  What size are
these airports?
I'd wager they're not Heathrow or JFK size, but are they simply
landing strips or are they a little bit flashier?

Hello wilbur111 and thank you for your question.

I have been unable to find any reference to private airports/airfields
of Saddams sons. Below is a list of public/military airports/airfields
in Iraq.

"Al Asad Military 13,055 
Al Fathah Military 9,900 
Al Iskandariyah New Small Civilian 10,249 
Al Jarrah Airbase  Military 10,500 
Al Mufrash putative airport  
Al Muhammadi Small Civilian 10,052 
Al Sahra Military 10,000 
Al Taji SOC IOC Military 5,500 
Al Taqaddum Airbase IOC Military 13,150 
Amarah Airbase IOC Military  
An Nejef New IOC Military  
An Numaniyah Military  
Ar Rumaylah Southwest Small Civilian 9,908 
Ar Rutbah Highway Strip IOC Military 12,433 
As Salman Airbase IOC Military  
Az Zubayr Airbase IOC Military  
Baghdad Muthenna Military 9,843 
Balad Southeast Military 11,515 
Baqubah Small Civilian 4,391 
Bashiqah Small Civilian 3,530 
Bashur Civilian 6,700 
Basrah Intl Civilian 13,100 
Basrah Maqal Civilian 6,063 
Erbil Northwest Small Civilian 9,608 
Ghalaysan New putative airport  
H1 Airbase IOC Military 9,857 
H 2 Military 12,795 
H 3 Airbase SOC IOC Military Airbase 10,170 
H 3 Northwest Military Airfield 9,700 
H 3 Southwest Military Airfield 8,200 
H 3 Highway Strip Military Dispersal 9,843 
Habbaniyah Military 7,800 
Jalibah Southeast Military 9,800 
Juwarin Highway Strip Military  
K 1 Civ/Mil 6,574 
K 2 Military 9,870 
Karbala Northeast Small Civilian 9,743 
Khan Bani Saad Small Civilian 3,685 
Kirkuk Airbase SOC IOC Military 10,719 
Kut Al Hayy East Military 9,843 
Mosul Airbase IOC Military 8,684 
Mudaysis Military 9,800 
Nukhayb Airbase IOC ????  
Qalat Salih Military 9,800 
Qalat Sikar Military 9,700 
Qasr Tall Mihl Small Civilian 3,330 
Qayyarah South Small Civilian 9,909 
Qayyarah West Military 12,075 
Radif Al Khafi Small Civilian 13,123 
Rasheed Military 8,300 
Ruwayshid Military 8,858 
Saddam IAP Civ/Mil 13,123 
Safwan Small Civilian 9,800 
Sahl Sinjar Military 9,800 
Salman Pak East IOC Military 9,500 
Salum Military 10,000 
Samarra East Military 9,800 
Sarabadi Civilian ??? 
Shaibah Military 9,800 
Shaykh Hantush Hwy Military  
Shaykh Mazhar Military 11,300 
Sirsenk Small Civilian 7,744 
Subakhu Small Civilian 9,815 
Shaykh Jåsim putative airport  
Tal Ashtah Military 9,700 
Tall Afar Small Civilian 9,839 
Tallil Airbase SOC IOC Military 12,142 
Tikrit East Military 9,700 
Tikrit South Civil-Military 9,100 
Tuz Khurmatu Military 9,800 
Umm Qasr Small Civilian  
Wadi Al Khirr New Military 9,700 
Wadi El Murbah Hwy putative airport"
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/airfields.htm 

Also, whilst scouring the darker corners of the web I found this
website http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:ziXZ50XZSrwC:www.machtres.com/irakx.htm+%22Al+Asad%22+runway&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
that contains satellite images of Iraqs airfields as well as tactical
pilotage charts for Iraq. As you can see it is only stored in the
Google cache memory and is no longer available, also you might notice
that the satellite images of the Iraqi airfields are from the CIA
website, strange that the link to the CIA web page is also not
working......

I realise this does not answer your question, but it might be of some
interest.

Best regards

THX1138

To add to what has already been said, if you are referring to
airfields that are in Baghdad, and whether or not any of these are
named after or dedicated to his son's, this very detailed map reveals
none:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/baghdad_nima_2003.jpg

The airfields may well have been intended for his sons' use or built
specifically to insure that his sons (among others) had access to an
airfield out of necessity but none appear to be for their exclusive
use. It is possible I suppose that certain runways on these airfields
were set aside for the exclusive use of the dictatorship but we have
no way of knowing that for sure - at least not at the moment.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

thx; Is the number after most of the airports the lenght in feet of
the longest runway?  Any idea the meaning of the A1, Al, An, As, Ar,
Az prefixes?