Biography Of Saddam Hussein.......
Prime Minister of Iraq
In office1979 –1991
1994 - 2003
Preceded by Ahmed Hassan al-BakrAhmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai
Succeeded bySa'dun HammadiIyad Allawi
Born:-April 28, 1937Al-Awja, Iraq
Died:-December 30, 2006,
Age:- 69 Kazimiyah, Iraq
Political party:- Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party
Spouse:-Sajida TalfahSamira ShahbandarNidal al-Hamdani
Religion:-Sunni Muslim
Additional:-Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council5th President of IraqIn officeJuly 16, 1979 – April 9, 2003
Preceded by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Succeeded by Coalition Provisional Authority
Saddam Hussein:-
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Saddām Husayn Aabdu-Al-majīd al-tikrītī; April 28, 1937– December 30, 2006), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003.As vice president under his cousin, General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces by creating repressive security forces and cementing his own firm authority over the apparatus of government.Saddam led Iraq as head of the Baath Party, kept the country unified, practiced one-party rule, censorship, instigated violence against Iraq's Shia, Kurdish, and Marsh Arab populations. He also espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism.Under Saddam, Iraq fought Iran in the 1980s and invaded Kuwait in 1990. Saddam tried to build Iraq into a regional power, and suspicion among US and UK government members (in a political climate affected by 9/11) that Saddam was attempting to build weapons of mass destruction ultimately led to his downfall.Maintaining power through the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) and the Gulf War (1991), Saddam's government collapsed as a result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the United States, and he was captured by American forces on December 13, 2003.
On November 5, 2006, he was convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraq Special Tribunal and was sentenced to death by hanging.On December 26, Saddam's appeal was rejected and the death sentence upheld. He was hanged, in front of lawyers, officials, and a doctor at approximately 06:00 Baghdad time (03:00 UTC) on December 30, 2006, according to Iraqi television.
Please Leave Comment About This Great Man.
He is right or wrong ?
I called great because without any iraq public support how he stay long turm in precident!!!!
Marriage and family relationships
Saddam's relationships with his family members were complex: he empowered and favored his sons as leaders of Iraq, allegedly forcibly married a woman after forcing her husband to divorce her, married other women as well (polygyny is acceptable in Islam), and is said to have cared for friendly family members, but not family members he distrusted.
Saddam married Sajida Talfah in 1963. Sajida is the daughter of Khairallah Talfah, Hussein's uncle and mentor. Their marriage was arranged for Hussein at age five when Sajida was seven; however, the two never met until their wedding.
They were married in Egypt during his exile. Together they had two sons, Uday and Qusay, and three daughters, Rana, Raghad and Hala. Uday controlled the media, and was named Journalist of the Century by the Iraqi Union of Journalists. Qusay ran the elite Republican Guard, and was considered Heir Presumptive. Both brothers are said to have made fortunes for themselves smuggling oil.[citation needed] Sajida, Raghad, and Rana were all placed under house arrest due suspicions of their involvement in Uday's assassination attempt on December 12, 1996 .
General Adnan Khairallah Tuffah, Sajida's brother and childhood friend of Hussein, was allegedly executed due to his growing popularity. Hussein's two sons Uday and Qusay, were both killed in a violent six hour gun battle against U.S. forces on July 22, 2003. Still photos of their badly shot up bodies were taken and widedly distributed “in an effort to convince any skeptical Iraqis that Uday, 39, and Qusay, 37, are really dead.”[43] His grandson Mustapha was the last one to die.[citation needed]Hussein also married two other women: Samira Shahbandar (rumored to have been his favourite),[44] whom he married in 1986 after forcing her husband to divorce her, and Nidal al-Hamdani, the general manager of the Solar Energy Research Center in the Council of Scientific Research, whose husband was apparently also persuaded to divorce his wife. There have apparently been no political issues from these latter two marriages. Hussein's third son, Ali, is from Samira.Saddam and daughter, Rana Hussein
In August 1995, Rana and her husband Hussein Kamel al-Majid and Raghad and her husband, Saddam Kamel al-Majid, defected to Jordan, taking their children with them. They returned to Iraq when they received assurances that Saddam would pardon them.
Within three days of their return in February 1996, both of the Majid brothers were attacked and killed in a gunfight with other clan members who considered them traitors. Saddam had made it clear that although pardoned, they would lose all status and would not receive any protection.
Hussein's daughter Hala is married to Jamal Mustafa Sultan al-Tikriti, the deputy head of Iraq's Tribal Affairs Office. Neither has been known to be involved in politics. Jamal surrendered to U.S. troops in April 2003. Another cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, infamously known as “Chemical Ali,” was accused of ordering the use of poison gas in 1988, and is now in U.S. custody.
In August 2003, Saddam's daughters Raghad and Rana received sanctuary in Amman, Jordan, where they are currently staying with their nine children. That month, they spoke with CNN and the Arab satellite station Al-Arabiya in Amman. When asked about her father, Raghad told CNN, "He was a very good father, loving, has a big heart." Asked if she wanted to give a message to her father, she said: "I love you and I miss you." Her sister Rana also remarked, "He had so many feelings and he was very tender with all of us."
Youth
Saddam Hussein Kazmi was born in the town of Al-Awja, 13 kilometres (8 mi) from the Iraqi town of Tikrit in the Sunni Triangle, to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat tribal group. His mother, Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, named her newborn son "Saddam", which in Arabic means "One who confronts". He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid, who disappeared six months before Saddam was born. He was the son of Musa Al-Kazim, one of the Sunni Imams of the Ahlul Bait. Shortly afterward, Saddam's 13-year-old brother died of cancer, leaving his mother severely depressed in the final months of the pregnancy. The infant Saddam was sent to the family of his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, until he was three.
His mother remarried, and Saddam gained three half-brothers through this marriage. His stepfather, Ibrahim al-Hassan, treated Saddam harshly after his return. At about the age of 10, Saddam fled the family and returned to live in Baghdad with his uncle, Kharaillah Tulfah. Tulfah, the father of Saddam's future wife, was a devout Sunni Muslim. Later in his life, relatives from his native Tikrit would become some of his closest advisors and supporters. According to Saddam, he learned many things from his uncle, a militant Iraqi nationalist. Under the guidance of his uncle, he attended a nationalistic secondary school in Baghdad. After secondary school, Saddam studied at Iraq's School of Law for three years, prior to dropping out in 1957, at age 20, to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba'ath Party, of which his uncle was a supporter. During this time, Saddam apparently supported himself as a secondary school teacher.
Revolutionary sentiment was characteristic of the era in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. The stranglehold of the old elites (the conservative monarchists, established families, and merchants) was breaking down in Iraq. Moreover, the populist pan-Arab nationalism of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt would profoundly influence the young Ba'athist, even up to the present day. The rise of Nasser foreshadowed a wave of revolutions throughout the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s, which would see the collapse of the monarchies of Iraq, Egypt, and Libya. Nasser challenged the British and French, nationalized the Suez Canal, and strove to modernize Egypt and unite the Arab world politically.
In 1958, a year after Saddam had joined the Ba'ath party, army officers led by General Abdul Karim Qassim overthrew Faisal II of Iraq. The Ba'athists opposed the new government, and in 1959, Saddam was involved in the attempted United States-backed plot to assassinate Qassim.
Saddam was shot in the leg, but escaped to Tikrit. He then crossed into Syria and was transferred to Beirut. From there he moved to Cairo. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Saddam studied law at the Cairo University during his exile.
Prime Minister of Iraq
In office1979 –1991
1994 - 2003
Preceded by Ahmed Hassan al-BakrAhmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai
Succeeded bySa'dun HammadiIyad Allawi
Born:-April 28, 1937Al-Awja, Iraq
Died:-December 30, 2006,
Age:- 69 Kazimiyah, Iraq
Political party:- Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party
Spouse:-Sajida TalfahSamira ShahbandarNidal al-Hamdani
Religion:-Sunni Muslim
Additional:-Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council5th President of IraqIn officeJuly 16, 1979 – April 9, 2003
Preceded by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Succeeded by Coalition Provisional Authority
Saddam Hussein:-
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Saddām Husayn Aabdu-Al-majīd al-tikrītī; April 28, 1937– December 30, 2006), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003.As vice president under his cousin, General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces by creating repressive security forces and cementing his own firm authority over the apparatus of government.Saddam led Iraq as head of the Baath Party, kept the country unified, practiced one-party rule, censorship, instigated violence against Iraq's Shia, Kurdish, and Marsh Arab populations. He also espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism.Under Saddam, Iraq fought Iran in the 1980s and invaded Kuwait in 1990. Saddam tried to build Iraq into a regional power, and suspicion among US and UK government members (in a political climate affected by 9/11) that Saddam was attempting to build weapons of mass destruction ultimately led to his downfall.Maintaining power through the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) and the Gulf War (1991), Saddam's government collapsed as a result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the United States, and he was captured by American forces on December 13, 2003.
On November 5, 2006, he was convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraq Special Tribunal and was sentenced to death by hanging.On December 26, Saddam's appeal was rejected and the death sentence upheld. He was hanged, in front of lawyers, officials, and a doctor at approximately 06:00 Baghdad time (03:00 UTC) on December 30, 2006, according to Iraqi television.
Please Leave Comment About This Great Man.
He is right or wrong ?
I called great because without any iraq public support how he stay long turm in precident!!!!
Marriage and family relationships
Saddam's relationships with his family members were complex: he empowered and favored his sons as leaders of Iraq, allegedly forcibly married a woman after forcing her husband to divorce her, married other women as well (polygyny is acceptable in Islam), and is said to have cared for friendly family members, but not family members he distrusted.
Saddam married Sajida Talfah in 1963. Sajida is the daughter of Khairallah Talfah, Hussein's uncle and mentor. Their marriage was arranged for Hussein at age five when Sajida was seven; however, the two never met until their wedding.
They were married in Egypt during his exile. Together they had two sons, Uday and Qusay, and three daughters, Rana, Raghad and Hala. Uday controlled the media, and was named Journalist of the Century by the Iraqi Union of Journalists. Qusay ran the elite Republican Guard, and was considered Heir Presumptive. Both brothers are said to have made fortunes for themselves smuggling oil.[citation needed] Sajida, Raghad, and Rana were all placed under house arrest due suspicions of their involvement in Uday's assassination attempt on December 12, 1996 .
General Adnan Khairallah Tuffah, Sajida's brother and childhood friend of Hussein, was allegedly executed due to his growing popularity. Hussein's two sons Uday and Qusay, were both killed in a violent six hour gun battle against U.S. forces on July 22, 2003. Still photos of their badly shot up bodies were taken and widedly distributed “in an effort to convince any skeptical Iraqis that Uday, 39, and Qusay, 37, are really dead.”[43] His grandson Mustapha was the last one to die.[citation needed]Hussein also married two other women: Samira Shahbandar (rumored to have been his favourite),[44] whom he married in 1986 after forcing her husband to divorce her, and Nidal al-Hamdani, the general manager of the Solar Energy Research Center in the Council of Scientific Research, whose husband was apparently also persuaded to divorce his wife. There have apparently been no political issues from these latter two marriages. Hussein's third son, Ali, is from Samira.Saddam and daughter, Rana Hussein
In August 1995, Rana and her husband Hussein Kamel al-Majid and Raghad and her husband, Saddam Kamel al-Majid, defected to Jordan, taking their children with them. They returned to Iraq when they received assurances that Saddam would pardon them.
Within three days of their return in February 1996, both of the Majid brothers were attacked and killed in a gunfight with other clan members who considered them traitors. Saddam had made it clear that although pardoned, they would lose all status and would not receive any protection.
Hussein's daughter Hala is married to Jamal Mustafa Sultan al-Tikriti, the deputy head of Iraq's Tribal Affairs Office. Neither has been known to be involved in politics. Jamal surrendered to U.S. troops in April 2003. Another cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, infamously known as “Chemical Ali,” was accused of ordering the use of poison gas in 1988, and is now in U.S. custody.
In August 2003, Saddam's daughters Raghad and Rana received sanctuary in Amman, Jordan, where they are currently staying with their nine children. That month, they spoke with CNN and the Arab satellite station Al-Arabiya in Amman. When asked about her father, Raghad told CNN, "He was a very good father, loving, has a big heart." Asked if she wanted to give a message to her father, she said: "I love you and I miss you." Her sister Rana also remarked, "He had so many feelings and he was very tender with all of us."
Youth
Saddam Hussein Kazmi was born in the town of Al-Awja, 13 kilometres (8 mi) from the Iraqi town of Tikrit in the Sunni Triangle, to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat tribal group. His mother, Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat, named her newborn son "Saddam", which in Arabic means "One who confronts". He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid, who disappeared six months before Saddam was born. He was the son of Musa Al-Kazim, one of the Sunni Imams of the Ahlul Bait. Shortly afterward, Saddam's 13-year-old brother died of cancer, leaving his mother severely depressed in the final months of the pregnancy. The infant Saddam was sent to the family of his maternal uncle, Khairallah Talfah, until he was three.
His mother remarried, and Saddam gained three half-brothers through this marriage. His stepfather, Ibrahim al-Hassan, treated Saddam harshly after his return. At about the age of 10, Saddam fled the family and returned to live in Baghdad with his uncle, Kharaillah Tulfah. Tulfah, the father of Saddam's future wife, was a devout Sunni Muslim. Later in his life, relatives from his native Tikrit would become some of his closest advisors and supporters. According to Saddam, he learned many things from his uncle, a militant Iraqi nationalist. Under the guidance of his uncle, he attended a nationalistic secondary school in Baghdad. After secondary school, Saddam studied at Iraq's School of Law for three years, prior to dropping out in 1957, at age 20, to join the revolutionary pan-Arab Ba'ath Party, of which his uncle was a supporter. During this time, Saddam apparently supported himself as a secondary school teacher.
Revolutionary sentiment was characteristic of the era in Iraq and throughout the Middle East. The stranglehold of the old elites (the conservative monarchists, established families, and merchants) was breaking down in Iraq. Moreover, the populist pan-Arab nationalism of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt would profoundly influence the young Ba'athist, even up to the present day. The rise of Nasser foreshadowed a wave of revolutions throughout the Middle East in the 1950s and 1960s, which would see the collapse of the monarchies of Iraq, Egypt, and Libya. Nasser challenged the British and French, nationalized the Suez Canal, and strove to modernize Egypt and unite the Arab world politically.
In 1958, a year after Saddam had joined the Ba'ath party, army officers led by General Abdul Karim Qassim overthrew Faisal II of Iraq. The Ba'athists opposed the new government, and in 1959, Saddam was involved in the attempted United States-backed plot to assassinate Qassim.
Saddam was shot in the leg, but escaped to Tikrit. He then crossed into Syria and was transferred to Beirut. From there he moved to Cairo. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Saddam studied law at the Cairo University during his exile.
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