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Saddam Hussein

Also known as Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, Hussein, Saddam

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism, a right-wing variant of Ba'athism.

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Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) was an Iraqi politician, military personnel, writer, and novelist. Born in Tikrit, he held the positions of President of Iraq, Prime Minister of Iraq, and Vice President of Iraq. A member of the Ba'ath Party and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, he served the Kingdom of Iraq, the First Republic of Iraq, Ba'athist Iraq, and Iraq. He attained the military rank of mushir and was educated at Cairo University.

Hussein was married to Sajida Talfah and Samira Shahbandar and had children including Uday Hussein, Qusay Hussein, Hala Hussein, and Rana Hussein. His religious worldview was Islam. He authored 94 works, including *Iraqi revolution in the service of humanity* and *On Iraq and international politics*. He received awards such as the Order of Stara Planina, the Order of José Martí, the Order of Mubarak the Great, and the Order of the Yugoslav Star. He died by capital punishment at Camp Justice.

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Born: 1937
Died: 2006
Works: 94

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السجل الأسود
The national declaration
La revolución y la mujer
Iraqi revolution in the service of humanity
Statement of H.E. Mr. Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq, on the Iraq-Iranian conflict, before the Third Summit Meeting of the Islamic conference

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Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism, a right-wing variant of Ba'athism.

Born near the city of Tikrit to a Sunni Arab family, Saddam joined the revolutionary Ba'ath Party in 1957. He played a key role in the 17 July Revolution that brought the Ba'athists to power in Iraq and made him vice president under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. During his tenure as vice president, Saddam nationalized the Iraq Petroleum Company, diversified the economy, introduced free healthcare and education, and supported women's rights. He also presided over the defeat of the Kurdish insurgency in the Second Iraqi–Kurdish War and signed the Algiers Agreement with Iran in 1975, thereby settling territorial disputes along the Iran–Iraq border. Following al-Bakr's resignation in 1979, Saddam formally took power. During his presidency, positions of power in the country were mostly filled with Sunni Arabs, a minority that made up only about a fifth of the Iraqi population.

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