Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. He previously served as the vice president from 1968 to 1979 and also as the prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. A leading member of the Ba'ath Party, he was a proponent of Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. The policies and ideologies he championed are collectively known as Saddamism, a right-wing variant of Ba'athism.

The Iran–Iraq War began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980. After eight years of conflict, both countries accepted a ceasefire deal brokered by the United Nations, which became effective in August 1988. The war caused around 500,000 deaths, making it the deadliest conventional war ever fought between regular armies of developing countries.

1986 genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people

massacre against the Kurdish people that took place in Halabja, Iraq on March 16, 1988

Al-Awja () is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris. It is mainly inhabited by Sunni Muslim Arabs.

Ba'athist Iraqi paramilitary organization

governing body in Ba'athist Iraq

1968 Ba'athist coup in Iraq

copy of the Qur'an written with ink in part made allegedly from blood donated from Saddam Hussein

Iraqi massacre

United Nations Security Council resolution

public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party by Saddam Hussein

Media event

Saddamism (), also known as '''Saddamist Ba'athism''' (), is a Ba'athist political ideology based on the political ideas and thinking of Saddam Hussein, who served as the president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. It espouses Arab nationalism, Arab socialism and Pan-Arabism, as well as an Iraq-centred Arab world that calls upon Arab countries to adopt Saddamist political discourse and reject "the Nasserist discourse" that it claims collapsed following the Six-Day War in 1967. It is militarist and views political disputes and conflict in a military manner as "battles" requiring "fighting", "mobilizat

Palace in Baghdad, Iraq

village in Malappuram District, Kerala, India

1992 Israeli plan to assassinate Iraqi president Saddam Hussein

against post-revolutionary Iran, included several billion dollars worth of assistance

Forged documents supposedly showing that Saddam Hussein tried to purchase yellowcake uranium

bibliography

architectural structure

information alleging connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda

Human rights issues from 1979 to 2003

1983 Iraqi film by Mohamed Shukri Jameel

place in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka

presidential election under Saddam Hussein

Persecution campaign

Iraqi presidential residence

Kurdish Islamist rebels