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Saddam Hussein
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
(
Arabic
: ; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth
President of
Iraq
, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
, and later, the
Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party
and its regional organization
Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region
—which espoused
Ba'athism
, a mix of
Arab nationalism
and
socialism
—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the
17 July Revolution
) that brought the party to power in Iraq.
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