# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saddam-hussein
# Generated: 2026-09-05T21:08:18.851Z

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description: "Iraqi president for 24 years whose rule spanned invasion, genocide, and two wars before his overthrow by US forces in 2003. His name became shorthand for dictatorship in the Middle East, and his execution closed a chapter that cost hundreds of thousands of lives."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born near Tikrit in 1937, Saddam joined the Ba'ath Party at twenty and helped bring it to power in the 17 July Revolution, rising to vice president under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr in 1968. During those years he nationalized oil, introduced free healthcare and education, and crushed Kurdish insurgency before taking the presidency in 1979 with a purge of rivals. In 1980 he invaded Iran, launching an eight-year war that ended in stalemate; as it closed he ordered the Anfal campaign, a genocide against Kurdish rebels. Two years later he invaded Kuwait, triggering the Gulf War and Iraq's defeat by a US-led coalition in 1991. His forces suppressed uprisings that followed. A 2003 invasion, premised on false claims of weapons programs and al-Qaeda ties, toppled him. The Iraqi High Tribunal convicted him of crimes against humanity. He was hanged on 30 December 2006.