In retaliation, Saddam's security forces attack the town, arresting about 1,500 residents.
Survives assassination attempt in Dujail, a mainly Shiite Muslim town 25 miles north of Baghdad. (Washington and its allies supported Saddam to help stave off victory by Iran.) The inconclusive eight-year war impoverishes Iraq and kills hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides. A year after the Islamic revolution in neighboring Iran, tensions rise between Iran and Iraq. (The chilling video shows a meeting of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council where members identified by Saddam as having suspect loyalty are removed from the hall to be shot.) Purges the Baath Party, eliminating his rivals in a power grab captured on videotape. Takes over as president of Iraq after pushing his cousin, President al-Bakr, to resign. As vice president, Saddam becomes Iraq's second most powerful leader, taking charge of internal security and building security apparatus that infiltrates all corners of Iraqi society. Baathists and like-minded army officers overthrow the Arif regime. This memory may have contributed to his ruthless style of governing.) (According to biographers, Saddam never forgot the tensions within the first Baathist government. Jailed for participation in the Baath Party, Saddam escapes and becomes a leading member of the party. After a short run in power, the Baath government, torn by factionalism, is overthrown by a group of military officers led by Abdul Rahman Arif in November 1963.ġ964-1966: Ready for the Baath. Returns to Iraq after helping the Arab Baath Socialist Party organize a coup that overthrows and kills Kassem. Saddam, wounded in the leg, flees Iraq and spends the next four years in Syria and Egypt.įeb. He is a member of the Baath assassination squad that ambushes Iraq's military leader, General Abdel-Karim Kassem, riddling his car with bullets. The following year he is arrested for killing his brother-in-law, a Communist, and spends six months in prison. Joins the underground Baath Socialist Party in 1957. His name in Arabic means "one who confronts."ġ957-1958: Jail Time. Saddam Hussein is born to a peasant family in a desert village near Tikrit, north of Baghdad. During the interview Saddam confirmed that he had fired his entire defense team, except for Iraqi lawyer Khalil Dulaimi.įrom his early days as a dangerous Baathist revolutionary to his sentence to be hanged, death has followed Saddam Hussein.Īpril 28, 1937: True to His Name. Saddam Hussein being questioned in August 2005 by Chief Investigative Judge Raid Juhi.
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