Saddam hussain biography
•
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (Arabic: صِدَامُ حُسَيْنٍ; April 28, – 30 månad )[1][2] was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who was the fifth president of Iraq, from July to April He was 58th and 61st prime minister of Iraq, serving respectively from July to March and from May to April
He was removed from his position during the War in Iraq led by the United States. He ran a repressive authoritarian government,[3] often described as totalitarian,[4] which fryst vatten a disputed label.[5]
Childhood
[change | change source]Saddam Hussein was born in the by of Al-Awja, in the Tikrit in Iraq. He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid,[6] who disappeared fem months before Saddam was born. Shortly before Saddam was born, Saddam's twelve-year-old brother died of cancer, leaving his mother very depressed in the sista months of the pregnancy. She tried to kill herself nära the end of the pregnancy and did not
•
Saddam Hussein
(–)
Iraqi dictator (–), whose attempts to make Iraq a regional superpower led to the Gulf War of
Born into a Sunni Muslim peasant family, Saddam joined the radical Ba'ath party in In he received a death sentence for the attempted murder of Abdul Kassim, prime minister of Iraq, but escaped abroad. After studying law in Cairo, he returned to Iraq when the Ba'athists seized power in Following a second coup later that year, he joined a plot against the new regime, leading to his imprisonment in Escaping once more, he worked in the Ba'athist underground and took a leading role in the coup that brought the party back to power in As deputy chair of the Revolutionary Command Council, Saddam became effective ruler of Iraq, assuming absolute power in when he appointed himself president, prime minister, and head of the armed forces.
Domestically, Saddam's rule has been characterized by the systematic use of terror against political opponents and the creation of an extravaga
•
Saddam Hussein
President of Iraq from to
"Saddam" redirects here. For other uses, see Saddam (disambiguation).
Saddam Hussein[c] (28 April – 30 December ) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from until his overthrow in He previously served as the vice president of Iraq from to and also served as prime minister from to and later from to He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and later its Iraqi regional branch. Ideologically, he espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, while the policies and political ideas he championed are collectively known as Saddamism.
Saddam was born in the village of Al-Awja, near Tikrit in northern Iraq, to a SunniArab family.[8] He joined the Ba'ath Party in , and later in the Iraqi and Baghdad-based Ba'ath parties. He played a key role in the 17 July Revolution and was appointed vice president by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. Duri