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    Saddam Hussein

    Iraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician

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  1. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003.

  2. Apr 24, 2024 · Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Al-ʿAwjah, Iraq—died December 30, 2006, Baghdad) was the president of Iraq (1979–2003) whose brutal rule was marked by costly and unsuccessful wars against neighbouring countries.

  3. Apr 2, 2014 · Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq for more than two decades and is seen as a figurehead of the country's military conflicts with Iran and the United States. Updated: Apr 14, 2021 Photo:...

  4. The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging , after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre —the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail —in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination ...

  5. May 2, 2024 · Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring that nation’s large oil reserves, canceling a large debt Iraq owed. Saddam Hussein, also spelled Ṣaddām Ḥusayn , (born April 28, 1937, Al-ʿAwjah, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad), President of Iraq (1979–2003).

  6. The Complex Legacy of. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein led Iraq from 1979 to 2003. During his rule he projected an image of himself as Iraq’s most influential leader and a courageous moderniser, but at the same time his repressive regime killed thousands of people.

  7. May 18, 2018 · Hussein, Saddam 1937-2006 BAATH PARTY COMES TO POWER [1] HUSSEIN BECOMES DICTATOR OF IRAQ [2] PAN-ARABISM, OIL, AND THE POLICE STATE [3] WAR WITH IRAN [4] WARS WITH THE UNITED STATES [5] BIBLIOGRAPHY [6] Saddam Hussein [7] was born on April 28, 1937, in the northern town of Tikrit, Iraq [8], to a

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