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Al-Awja (Arabic: العوجة) is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. It is mainly inhabited by Sunni Arabs. The village is known for being the hometown and place of burial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Sep 16, 2010 · Al-Awja is the village where the family of President Saddam Hussein – who ruled Iraq for more than thirty years, before being executed following the US occupation of Iraq – continues to live until this day.
Mar 16, 2015 · The tomb of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been almost completely levelled in fighting near the city of Tikrit, new footage reveals.
Aug 3, 2007 · Awja, 100 miles north of Baghdad, is in the middle of a fiercely contested war zone, where American troops passing on Iraq’s main north-south highway, flanking the village, are regularly...
Dec 3, 2023 · Long before Saddam Hussein’s capture and the two wars that preceded it, he was born in the small village of Al Awja, Iraq, on April 28, 1937, and he endured a rather traumatic upbringing. Before he was born, both his father and brother died of cancer, leaving his mother depressed and alone.
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Apr 16, 2018 · In his native village of Al-Awjah, the mausoleum of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein has been reduced to broken concrete and tangled barbed wire, showing no trace of his remains.
Dec 30, 2006 · Apr 28 1937: Saddam Hussein is born in the village al-Awja, near the town of Tikrit in north-central Iraq. His father disappeared shortly after his birth and he was raised by his stepfather and...
