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صدام حسين

Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006)^[1][2] was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who was the fifth president of Iraq, from July 1979 to April 2003. He was 58th and 61st prime minister of Iraq, serving respectively from July 1979 to March 1991 and from May 1994 to April 2003.

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 is a disputed label.^[5]

Childhood

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Saddam Hussein was born in the village of Al-Awja, in the Tikrit in Iraq.

Saddam hussein death date

He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid,^[6] who disappeared five 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 final months of the pregnancy. She tried to kill herself near the end of