Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (
Arabic: ;
April 28,
1937 –
December 30,
2006), was the
President of
Iraq from
July 16,
1979, until
April 9,
2003.A leading member of the revolutionary
Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular
pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. As vice president under the ailing General
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces — at a time when many other groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government — by creating repressive security forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam spearheaded Iraq's nationalization of the Western-owned
Iraq Petroleum Company, which had long held a monopoly on the country's oil. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as Iraq's economy grew at a rapid pace.
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