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Saddam Hussein: Wars
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Saddam Hussein is a man with the reputation for ruthless crushing of his opposition. When he assumed power, he rid his party of officials and military officers due to an alleged Syrian plot to overthrow his government. He executed another three hundred officers in 1982 for rebelling against his tactics in the war with Iran. In order to protect himself, Saddam surrounded himself with family and friends in positions of trust and responsibility in the government. After a family dispute, his brother-in-law "mysteriously" died in a helicopter accident. He ordered the murders of his sons-in-law after they fled to Jordan in 1996.
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Saddam Hussein's greatest fault as a leader was his aggressiveness towards some of Iraq's neighbours. The war against Iran had dramatic effects on Iraq's economy and on the development of the country, while the war against Kuwait gave him the symbolic status of "bad boy" of the world. This was true even though the background of the war was complex and the conduct of the occupation forces was mild compared to a number of far more brutal wars around the world at the same time.
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As the war was looming on February 24, 2003, Saddam Hussein talked with CBS News anchor Dan Rather for more than three hours — his first interview with a U.S. reporter in over a decade. CBS aired the taped interview later that week.
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This video image released by Iraqi state television shows Saddam Hussein being led to the gallows by guards wearing ski masks moments before his execution Saturday Dec. 30. 2006. Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen after a quarter-century of remorseless brutality that killed countless thousands and led Iraq into disastrous wars against the United States and Iran.
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Most analysts suggest that Saddam Hussein resurrected a decades-old border dispute at a time that Iran was presumably weakened through a change in government. There was ... historical ethnic antipathy between Persians and Arabs. At the very beginning of the war, Iraq gained some territory. But the war served as a unifying cause for the attacked Iranians who were well equipped with U.S. supplied military weaponry. When Iran recovered its occupied territory and began attacking Iraq, the international community and Arab states in particular began to support the Iraqi cause. The war ended when Iraq began to use chemical weapons to repulse Iranian advances.
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''The president, the leader Saddam Hussein is a martyr and God will put him along with other martyrs. Do not be sad nor complain because he has died the death of a holy warrior,'' said Sheik Yahya al-Attawi, a cleric at the Saddam Big Mosque.
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