Saddam Hussein was born on April 27th, 1937, in a small town named Al-awja near Tikrit, Iraq. His mothers name Subha Talfah Al-Mussallat. He never knew his father because he left 6 months before Saddam was born. The name Saddam stands for "one who confronts." A short time after Saddam was born his brother who was at the age of 13 at the time, passed away due to cancer. Saddam was then sent to his maternal uncle Khairallah Talfah until he reached the age of 3. His mother then got remarried thus thrusting 3 step brothers and a very abusing step father into his life. Somewhere around the age of ten Saddam fled from his families household and when back to Baghdad to live with his uncle Khairallah Talfah. He stayed with his uncle for the rest of his childhood and during that time he went to high school and also secondary school. According to rumors, Saddam supported himself at that time as a secondary school teacher. He eventually joined the Ba'ath party. The Ba'ath party opposed the new Iraq government. In 1959, Saddam took part of the unsuccessful attempt that the U.S. was involved in to assassinate Abdul Karim Qassim. Eventually the army officials within the party over threw Qassim. The Ba'ath party members were later voted into the cabinet. Saddam eventually escalated to the position of General in the Iraqi army and was considered the strongman of the entire Iraq government. Saddam's beliefs eventually was the cause of passing laws that gave women better rights and chances to get jobs. Saddam also created a western style legal system due to his beliefs and made Iraq the only country in the middle east that didn't go with the Islamic methods of laws. Saddam took a big part and was largely involved in the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war. The U.S. believed Saddam Hussein was a terrorist type tyrant. In 2003 the U.S. invaded Iraq and eventually captured him in a farmhouse. He was later put up for trial and was hung on the 30th of December in 2006. I personally think it is good that he was captured and hung because we didn't need any more terrorists running around in this world.
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