Saddam Hussein Essay

Saddam Hussein was known as a great leader to some but most people know him as a terrorist and a murder. Saddam was born April 28, 1937 in Al-Awja, Iraq and died December 30 2006 in Kadhimiya, Iraq. He was born to a peasant family and later as a teenager Saddam became an anti-British, Arab nationalist ideology of the day. Saddam went to college to study law at the University of Baghdad but later dropped out and joined a party called Ba’ath and the party had a plan to assassinate the Prime Minister Abdel-Karim Qassem. Saddam's gun shot prematurely and Saddam got injured and fled to Egypt on a donkey. Saddam went 4 years later in 1963 the Ba’ath party ended up overthrowing Qassem and Saddam comes back home and started to push for power but within months of his return there was a setback. Saddam was jailed until the Baathists seized power again in 1968, When that …show more content…
The verdict and sentencing were both appealed but subsequently affirmed by Iraq’s Supreme Court of Appeals. On December 30th 2006, Saddam was hanged back at home in Kadhimiya, Iraq. Saddam had 2 wives Samira Shahbandar and Sajida Talfah and 5 children Uday, Raghad, Qusay, Rana and Hala Hussein all of which are Sajida’s kids. Saddam also played in a movie called Long Days. Saddam had 5 siblings, 3 brothers and 2 sisters. The brothers were Barzan, Watban and Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti and his sisters were Nawal Ibrahim Al-Hassan and Siham Hussein. Saddam’s father was Hussein ‘Abd al Majid and his mother was Subha Tulfah al-Mussallat. His sisters are still alive but his 2 wives and sons were KIA in 2003 and 2006. Saddam has been said to be one of the worst dictators in history besides Hitler. Over 1 million people have died from what Saddam has done. Saddam's right hand man was Izzat Ibrahim Al-Douri but was later killed by security forces on April 17th