Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia
WEBSaddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003.
Operation RED DAWN nets Saddam Hussein - The United States Army
WEBden 6. dec. 2013 · Ten years ago this week, the US Army captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein alive. The story of how he was located and captured is an intelligence success story.
Saddam Hussein | Biography, History, Death, Sons, & Facts
WEBden 1. jun. 2024 · Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Al-ʿAwjah, Iraq—died December 30, 2006, Baghdad) was the president of Iraq (1979–2003) whose brutal rule was marked by costly and unsuccessful wars against neighbouring countries.
Task Force 121: The capture of Saddam Hussein
WEBden 16. okt. 2012 · Task Force 121 was a secret unit formed with only one goal: capture or kill Saddam Hussein. The Task Force 121 was part of U.S. SOCOM and filled with U.S. Special Operations Forces operators. It also included members of …
Capture of Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia
WEBSaddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq, was captured by the United States military in the town of Ad-Dawr, Iraq on 13 December 2003. Codenamed Operation Red Dawn, this military operation was named after the 1984 American film Red Dawn. [3]
The ex-CIA agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein - BBC News
WEBden 4. jan. 2017 · When former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003, the CIA required a specialist who could identify and interrogate him for information. That person was John Nixon.
On the Gallows, Curses for U.S. and ‘Traitors’
WEBden 31. dec. 2006 · Iraqi state television footage of the moments before Saddam Hussein's execution, as guards wearing masks lead him to the gallows and place the noose around his neck.
Saddam Hussein | Saddam Hussein | The Guardian
WEBden 30. dec. 2006 · The Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who was executed this morning at the age of 69, may not yield many general biographies - he was personally too uninteresting for that - but he will be a case...
BBC News | Saddam's Iraq: Key events
WEBFrom beginnings as a young activist, Saddam Hussein rose to become a highly controlling deputy to the Iraqi president. In 1957, Saddam Hussein, a youth from a village near Tikrit in the north...
Inside Iraq Before and During the Era of Saddam Hussein
WEBden 30. dec. 2023 · US Foreign Service females in Iraq had to be well aware of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime. Most probably knew, as Freedman points out, that his power base was in the Sunni minority community, while Kurds mostly in the north of the country, and Shi’ites mostly in the south, were opposed to his regime.
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