What did Saddam Hussein in his country?

Answer 1

Yes. He managed all aspects of his government and his people's lives.

Answer 2

A fanatical leader of Iraq until recently when he was caught by troops sent in to rid the country of him and rid him of the country. He murdered thousands of his citizens through his very harsh regime and became notorious throughout the world. He was eventually put to death by hanging under his own capital punishment laws after a war crimes court case.

Saddam Hussein was the fifth President of Iraq serving from july 1979 till April 2003. He is known to be a ruthless dictator who kept iraq at war almost continously after assuming power. He used a lot of means to stay in power for two decades. His entire ruling period was very brutal and inhumane. Therefore, he was sentenced to death on 5th november 2006 and killed by hanging in the next month.

Answer 3

General Information
Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti was Iraq's Fifth President from 1979 until 2003. (Note: al-Tikriti is his last name, not Hussein, which is his father's name, so it is proper to refer to Saddam Hussein as Saddam or al-Tikriti, but not Hussein.) He distinguished himself as a cunning totalitarian monster who ruled Iraq through iron-fisted laws, domestic militancy, and mass persecution of minorities. This is not unlike totalitarian monsters in other countries, who ruled similarly (like Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic or Argentina's Juan Peron). He was a member of the Ba'ath party, a party which was inspired by the Fascist style of governance (which explains many of the similarities between Saddam and Peron, who also ruled based on a fascist style).

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Hussein began to come onto the political scene during the Caudillo-government of General Abd el-Karim Qasim. It is believed that he took part in the failed attempted assassination of Qasim in 1959 and fled to Egypt and Syria. He returned to Iraq in 1964 and was imprisoned for three years. In 1967, Saddam Hussein aligned himself with Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, another Ba'athist under the Caudillo-government of the Arif brothers. In 1968, Hussein actively participated with al-Bakr in coup d'etat against Abdul Rahman Arif, resulting in al-Bakr becoming President of Iraq. Throughout the 1970s, al-Bakr an Saddam became close and while al-Bakr was becoming sicker and sicker in the late 1970s, Saddam became the de facto President in his stead. When al-Bakr was pressed to resign in 1979, Saddam became Iraq's fifth President in-name as well.

The Fall of Shah of Iran and the rise of the Shiite Islamic Republic of Iran created an unprecedented problem for Saddam to curb Shiite Islamists who could incite Iraq's Shiite majority against his rulership. This led to Saddam choosing to invade Iran in an attempt to weaken that country. He found an ally in the United States, which was still reeling from the loss of one of its key Middle East allies and the Embassy Hostage Crisis in Tehran. The subsequent Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 was the longest war in the 20th century (nearly 8 years) and millions died. Saddam used the war as a facade to attack his domestic enemies as well, performing several gas attacks in Kurdish communities to massacre hundreds of thousands of Kurdish civilians to prevent their resistance. He also targeted the Marsh Arabs for elimination for the same reasons.

At the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, Iraq had a massive debt, especially to Gulf countries like Kuwait. Saddam decided that rather than pay the debt, he should revitalize an old claim that Kuwait belonged to Iraq and promptly invaded in 1990. The UN intervened in 1991, and forcibly ejected the Iraqi Army from Kuwait, in what is known as the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991. From 1991-2003, Saddam was required to submit to international monitoring for weapons of mass destruction. He was eventually overthrown in 2003 when US officials believed him to be on his way to acquiring such a weapon. The resulting Iraq War resulted in Saddam's overthrow and the creation of a Representative Republic. During the US Occupation of Iraq, a trial was held for Saddam's crimes in Dujail which was a massacre of Shiites praying during Ashoura (a sacred Shiite-only holiday). He was found guilty of war crimes and hung in 2006.

Contrary to the Community Answer, Saddam was not a "fanatic", if only because his totalitarianism was not correlated with extreme zeal for a religious cause (he was adamantly secular) or a political cause (he was primarily concerned with local rule and was disinterested in Pan-Arab movements).

Answer 4

A very bad person in charge of all deadly threats to the united states. currently hiding in the hills of Pakistan

Answer 5

Charged with war crimes and was hanged.

Answer 6

Sadam Hussain is dead.