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From 16 July 1979 to 9 April 2003, Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, an Iraqi politician, was Iraq’s fifth president.

The leading figure in the revolutionary Arab Socialist Baath Party – which later became the Baath Party with headquarters in Baghdad and its regional affiliate, the Iraqi Baath Party, and promoted the ideology of Baathism, a synthesis of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism – Saddam played a significant part in the 1968 uprising (later known as the 17 July Revolution), which put the party in power in Iraq.

EARLY LIFE

• Awja, a small village close to Tikrit, is where Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was born on 28 April 1937.

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  His father and brother died of cancer before he was born. Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, the mother of Saddam, became so sad as a result of these tragedies that she attempted both suicide and an abortion of her unborn child. Saddam would finally be tak