During more than two decades as leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein's violent methods and uncompromising stance thrust his country onto the world stage.
Saddam Hussein's road to absolute power began in Tikrit, central Iraq, where he was born in 1937.
His stepfather beat him as a child, introducing him to the brutality and bullying which would mark his own life.
Joining up with the clandestine Baath party in 1956, he participated in a failed attempt to assassinate military ruler General Abdul Karim Qassem. Read more
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