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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Hussein, Husain, Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saddam, Saddam bin Hussein at-Takritinoun

    Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937)

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  1. Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein ( (listen); Arabic: صدام حسين, Mesopotamian Arabic [sˤɐdˈdɑːm ɜħsɪe̯n]; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006), known mononymously as Saddam, was an Iraqi politician and dictator who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party—which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism, Iraqi nationalism and Arab socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later referred to as the 17 July Revolution) that brought the party to power in Iraq.: 174 As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflicts between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalised the Iraq Petroleum Company and independent banks, eventually leaving the banking system insolvent due to inflation and bad loans. Through the 1970s, Saddam consolidated his authority over the apparatus of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy grow rapidly. Positions of power in the country were mostly filled with Sunni Arabs, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.Saddam formally took power in 1979, although he had already been the de facto head of Iraq for several years. He suppressed several movements, particularly Shi'a and Kurdish movements which sought to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively, and maintained power during the Iran–Iraq War and the Gulf War. He ran a repressive authoritarian government, which several analysts have described as totalitarian, although the applicability of that label has been contested. Saddam's rule was marked by numerous human rights abuses, including an estimated 250,000 arbitrary killings and bloody invasions of neighboring Iran and Kuwait.In 2003, a coalition led by the United States invaded Iraq to depose Saddam. US President George W. Bush and United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair erroneously accused Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction and having ties to al-Qaeda. Saddam's Ba'ath party was disbanded. After his capture on 13 December 2003, the trial of Saddam Hussein took place under the Iraqi Interim Government. On 5 November 2006, Saddam was convicted by an Iraqi court of crimes against humanity related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'a and sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed on 30 December 2006.

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  1. saddam hussein

    Saddam Hussein was the fifth president of Iraq, serving in this capacity 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 Arab socialism, Hussein played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. As the de facto leader of Iraq for 24 years, his rule was marked by significant human rights abuses, wars with neighboring countries and fierce suppression of political dissidence, leading to his widespread notoriety. He was captured during the U.S. led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was executed in 2006 for crimes against humanity.

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  1. Saddam Hussein

    Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region—which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. The state-owned banks were put under his control, leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran–Iraq War, the Persian Gulf War, and UN sanctions. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace. Positions of power in the country were mostly filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of saddam hussein in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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    The numerical value of saddam hussein in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of saddam hussein in a Sentence

  1. John Kasich:

    I served on the defense committee for 18 years, i was there during the Reagan build up, when the Berlin Wall came down, and when Saddam (Hussein) was pushed out of Kuwait.

  2. Bill Clinton:

    I told him to go to Saddam Hussein, call him and tell him that I have no interest in killing him or hunting him down. I'm not fooling with him. I just don't want his chemical and biological program going forward.

  3. Saddam Hussein:

    John Nixon found a traitor who led John Nixon to Saddam Hussein. Is n’t there one traitor who can tell John Nixon where the WMDs are ?

  4. Vladimir Putin:

    We all remember what happened with Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein children were killed, I think Saddam Hussein grandson was shot, the whole country was destroyed and Saddam Hussein was hanged... We all know how this happened and people in North Korea remember well what happened in Iraq.

  5. Gen John Nicholson:

    As ISIS-K's losses have mounted, Saddam Hussein and Iraqi forces are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken Saddam Hussein and Iraqi forces defense, this is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of Saddam Hussein and Iraqi forces offensive against ISIS-K.


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  • صدام حسينArabic
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  • סדאם חוסייןHebrew
  • சதாம் ஹூசைன்Tamil
  • సాదాద్ హస్సీన్Telugu
  • صدام حسینUrdu

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