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Wikipedia: Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces.
![[Carlos Cardoen meeting with former Iraqi President Saddam Hussain]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cardoen_Saddam_s.jpg "Carlos Cardoen meeting with former Iraqi President Saddam Hussain")
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![[Saddam Hussein in Cairo after fleeing there following the failed assassination attempt against Qassim]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Saddam48_s.jpg "Saddam Hussein in Cairo after fleeing there following the failed assassination attempt against Qassim")
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![[Saddam Hussein after the successful 1963 Ba'ath party coup]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Saddam47_s.jpg "Saddam Hussein after the successful 1963 Ba'ath party coup")
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![[Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party student cell, Cairo, in the period 1959–63]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/SaddamCairo_s.jpg "Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party student cell, Cairo, in the period 1959–63")
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![[Саддам Хусейн за несколько дней до падения Багдада]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/SaddamBaghdadwalkabout-1-.jpg "Саддам Хусейн за несколько дней до падения Багдада")
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![[Saddam speaking at a pre-trial hearing]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Saddam_Hussein_at_trial_2C_July_2004_edit1_s.jpg "Saddam speaking at a pre-trial hearing")
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