User:Kharbaan Ghaltaan/Article of Saddam Hussein
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| 5th President of Iraq | |
| In office 16 July 1979 – 9 April 2003 | |
| Prime Minister |
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| Deputy | Tariq Aziz |
| Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council | |
| In office 16 July 1979 – 9 April 2003 | |
Saddam Hussein Abd-al Majid Tikriti[b] (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006), commonly known as Saddam Hussein, was an Iraqi revolutionary and politician, who was the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to until his overthrow in 2003. He also served as Iraq's prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003 and before that Saddam was vice president from 1968 to 1979. Saddam was leading member of the Ba'ath Party and later its Iraqi regional branch.
Born to an Arab Sunni Muslim family near Tikrit, Saddam did his schooling from Baghdad.
- ^ Shewchuk, Blair (February 2003). "Saddam or Mr. Hussein?". CBC News.
This brings us to the first, and primary, reason many newsrooms use 'Saddam' – it's how he's known throughout Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.
- ^ a b Notzon, Beth; Nesom, Gayle (February 2005). "The Arabic Naming System" (PDF). Science Editor. 28 (1): 20–21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2022.
- ^ Burns, John F. (2 July 2004). "Defiant Hussein Rebukes Iraqi Court for Trying Him". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2004.
- ^ "Saddam Hussein". Encyclopædia Britannica. 29 May 2023.
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