Saddam Hussein

(born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. 'Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959, Saddam fled to Cairo, where he briefly attended law school. He returned to Iraq when the Ba'thists gained power in 1963. Jailed when the Ba'thists were overthrown, he escaped and helped reinstall the party to power in 1968. He led the nationalization of the oil industry in 1972. He took over the presidency with the aims of replacing Egypt as leader of the Arab world and of gaining hegemony over the Persian Gulf, and he launched wars against Iran (Iran-Iraq War, 1980–90) and Kuwait (Persian Gulf War, 1990–91), both of which he lost. He instituted a brutal dictatorship and directed intensive campaigns against minorities within Iraq, particularly the Kurds. U.S. fears regarding his development of weapons of mass destruction led to Western sanctions against Iraq. Sanctions were followed by an Anglo-American invasion in 2003 (Iraq War) that drove him from power. After several months in hiding, he was captured by U.S. forces. In 2006 the Iraqi High Tribunal sentenced him to death for crimes against humanity. Days after an Iraqi court upheld his sentence in December 2006, Saddam was executed. See also Pan-Arabism.

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reporting that the CIA has low confidence in regards to when Sadaam would use WMDs, whether he would attack U.

Congressional responsibility in controlling the war machine by Botelho, Jeffrey A. / St. Thomas Law Review

Opening with a room of photographs Meiselas took over the course of two trips in 1991, these images document the remains of Sadaam Hussein's brutal Anfal campaign three years prior, a systematic destruction of Kurdish towns, homes, and communities of people.

Present past by Abbaspour, Mitra / Afterimage

Iraq Through a Bullet Hole: A Citizen Returns Home" tells his story of how he finally returned to his home country after a twelve year exile from the previous regime of Sadaam Hussein.

Iraq Through a Bullet Hole by Carson, Michael J. / Reviewer's Bookwatch

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