saddam hussein

     

Sadam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrītī; April 28, 1937 – December 30, 2006) was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003.

Trivia about saddam hussein

  • This Iraqi president attended Cairo Law School in 1962 & 1963 while in exile
  • On August 28, 1990 he declared that Kuwait was now Iraq's 19th province
  • He's still president
  • The AP reported this Iraqi leader's son won 99.99% of the vote in his National Assembly race
  • After taking over the government of Iraq in 1968, he made himself a general, though he'd never been in the army
  • In 2006, Abdullah al-Amiri was removed as judge amid charges he was too soft on this notorious defendant
  • In addition to serving as Iraq's president, he's chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council
  • In July 1990 he said of the West, "Yours is a society which cannot accept 10,000 dead in one battle"
  • In 1990 he boasted that if attacked, he would turn the Saudi oil fields into "A sea of fire"
  • Despite numerous coup attempts & the actions of several presidents, he's been in power since 1979
  • April 28, 1937:Tikrit, Iraq
  • As leader of the Baath party, he became dictator of a Middle Eastern country in 1979; in 2003 he was deposed
  • Hanging, December 30, 2006 in Baghdad
  • The June 4, 1990 cover of U.S. News called him "The Most Dangerous Man in the World"
  • Encouraged by the U.S. following the first Gulf War, the Kurds rose up against this dictator in 1991
  • This current world leader spent 1959-1963 in exile after trying to assassinate PM Abdul Karim Kassem
  • I saw U.S. Marines topple a statue of this man on April 9, 2003
  • Orphaned as a boy, he reportedly spent his youth on his uncle's melon farm near the Tigris
  • This notorious individual completes the royal flush seen here
  • The statue of this man, seen here coming down, had gone up just a year earlier to mark his 65th birthday
  • He fled Iraq in 1959 after his attempt to assassinate Iraqi prime minister Abdul Kassim failed