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Saddam was born in the village of Al-Awja, near Tikrit in northern Iraq, to a Sunni Arab family. [8] He joined the Ba'ath Party in 1957, and later in 1966 the Iraqi and Baghdad-based Ba'ath parties. He played a key role in the 17 July Revolution and was appointed vice president by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.
The spokesman, Major Michael Shavers, said Saddam, captured by U.S. troops in December, was entitled to all the rights under the Geneva Conventions. The International Committee of the Red Cross had asked to visit the former Iraqi leader as soon as possible. Shavers did not give further details about Saddam's conditions of detention.
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed on 30 December 2006. [1] Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre—the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail—in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.
The date and place of the execution were secret until the sentence was carried out. [4] Saddam was executed by hanging on 30 December 2006. [5] With his death, all other charges were dropped. Critics viewed the trial as a show trial that did not meet international standards on the right to a fair trial.
On 22 July, a raid by the US 101st Airborne Division and soldiers from Task Force 20 killed Saddam's sons (Uday and Qusay) along with one of his grandsons. In all, over 300 top leaders of the former government were killed or captured, as well as numerous lesser functionaries and military personnel.
The charges against Saddam included razing 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of Dujail farmland. The source for the figure was an unsourced claim published in a 2005 article in The New York Times . [ 14 ] The claimed area is larger than the total amount of farmland surrounding Dujail, and less than 2% of the city's population had land confiscated or ...
The reason Saddam did not become president until 1979 may be explained by Saddam's own insecurity. [34] Before making himself de jure head of state, Saddam initiated an anti-communist campaign; the ICP had no real power, and most of its leading officials had left the country or been imprisoned or executed by the Ba'ath government.
Heads of state or government assassinated or executed after they left office (e.g. Aldo Moro, Saddam Hussein and Shinzo Abe) are excluded. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.