Saddam Hussein

n. (1937-2006) former Iraqi president and political leader (1979-2003) who was executed by hanging on December 30th 2006

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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Noun
1. Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)
(synonym) Hussein, Husain, Husayn, Saddam, Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti
(hypernym) leader

n. Saddam Hussein, (born 1937) former Iraqi president and political leader (1979-2003)

n. Saddam Hussein (born 1937), Iraqi president and political leader (1979-2003)