* 1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western " guests " ( actually hostages ) to try to prevent the Gulf War.

* 1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

* 2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: Baghdad falls to American forces ; Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is currently experiencing the transition from a command economy under Hussein to a free market economy.

Saddam Hussein at his Trial of Saddam Hussein | trial in 2004.

* 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi Dictator, ( executed for war crimes ) ( b. 1937 )

* 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit ( see Operation Red Dawn ).

Ba ' ath Party founder Michel Aflaq ( left ) with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( right ) in 1988.

Ba ' athist heads of state such as Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein created personality cults around themselves portraying themselves as the nationalist saviours of the Arab world.

Ba ' athist Iraq under Saddam Hussein pursued ethnic cleansing or liquidation of minorities, pursued expansionist wars against Iran and Kuwait, and gradually replaced pan-Arabism with an Iraqi nationalism that emphasized Iraq's connection to the glories of ancient Mesopotamian empires, including Babylonia.

Historian of fascism Stanley Payne has said about Saddam Hussein's regime: " There will probably never again be a reproduction of the Third Reich, but Saddam Hussein has come closer than any other dictator since 1945 ".

The CIA's Special Activities Division created successful guerrilla forces from the Hmong tribe during the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, from the Northern Alliance against the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan in 2001, and from the Kurdish Peshmerga against Ansar al-Islam and the forces of Saddam Hussein during the war in Iraq in 2003.

The Republic was controlled by Saddam Hussein from 1979 to 2003, into which period falls into the war with Iran and the Gulf War.

Saddam Hussein was deposed following the 2003 US-led invasion of the country.

When Saddam Hussein failed to comply with this demand, the Gulf War ( Operation " Desert Storm ") ensued on January 17, 1991.

Although they presented a serious threat to the Iraqi Ba ' ath Party regime, Saddam Hussein managed to suppress the rebellions with massive and indiscriminate force and maintained power.

Saddam Hussein, who vanished in April, was captured on December 13, 2003.

There have been concerns that the country has become condemned " to repeat the undemocratic cycle which began in the 1920s and eventually produced the Saddam Hussein regime.

Before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the Ba ' ath Party officially ruled.

The report, compiled by Frederick L. Coolidge and Daniel L. Segal ( with the assistance of a South Korean psychiatrist considered an expert on Kim Jong-il's behavior ), concluded that the " big six " group of personality disorders shared by dictators Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Saddam Hussein ( sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal ) were also shared by Kim Jong-il — coinciding primarily with the profile of Saddam Hussein.

* In another reference to One Froggy Evening, the South Park episode Cancelled ( 2003 ) featured the likeness of Saddam Hussein briefly singing and dancing to " Hello!

It was reported that the check was hand-delivered to Mr. Strong by a South Korean businessman, Tongsun Park, who in 2006 was convicted in New York federal court of conspiring to bribe U. N. officials to rig Oil-for-Food in favor of Saddam Hussein.

The Regiment has fought against Louis XIV, Napoleon, Kruger, George Washington, The Kaiser, Hitler, Bonnie Prince Charlie the IRA, The United States, various natives of Africa and Asia and Saddam Hussein ; in the Netherlands, in the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years ' War, in the American Revolution, in India, the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, in the Crimea, in the South African wars, in the First and Second World Wars and in recent Gulf conflicts.

It included both parodies of actual LoD villains ( Solomon Grundy, Cheetah, and Black Manta ), at least two Marvel villain parodies ( Doctor Octopus and Doctor Doom ) and villains from the South Park universe ( such as Professor Chaos, General Disarray, David Blaine and Saddam Hussein, as well as Osama Bin Laden and Kim Jong Il ).

Meanwhile, in Hell, Satan is torn between two lovers: Chris, an overly sensitive man he is living with ( voiced by Dian Bachar ), and Saddam Hussein, Satan's emotionally abusive ex, whom he had killed at the end of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

" Tom's Rhinoplasty " marked the first time a real photographic image of a person's head ( in this case David Hasselhoff ) was superimposed over a cartoon body, a practice which would become common throughout the series, such as the character of Saddam Hussein in the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.

The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

To his ally Kenneth Kaunda Saddam once sent a Boeing 747 full of presents — rugs, televisions, ornaments.

Saddam feared that radical Islamic ideas — hostile to his secular rule — were rapidly spreading inside his country among the majority Shi ' ite population.

* Saddam Hussein: 1937 – 2006 — slideshow by The First Post

* Saddam Hussein — From Birth to Martyrdom ( 2007 ).

" During that hearing, he also stated: " Some people might say — and I think I would sympathise with this view — that perhaps if we had delayed the ceasefire by a few more days, we might have got rid of Saddam Hussein.

The idea was initially rejected, at the behest of Secretary of State Colin Powell, but, according to Kampfner, " Undeterred Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz held secret meetings about opening up a second front — against Saddam.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability — in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks — but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare ( CW ) capabilities.

Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid () ( lived 1954 — February 23, 1996 ) was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

At Saddam, they waited three hours and 30 minutes for the arrival of KAL 858 — the target of their operation — which took off at around 11: 30 p. m.

Reeves ' opinions generally have a liberal bent — he opposed the war to topple Saddam Hussein as " stupid and unnecessary " ( column, March 19, 2003 )— but shuns " extreme " leftist positions.

: Up until now, the fiction recklessly spewed by disgruntled intelligence-community retirees and their media enablers — some of whom have conceded that the claim is based on zero evidence — has been that Michael had something to do with the forged Italian documents that, according to the Left ’ s narrative, were the basis for President Bush ’ s “ lie ” in the 2003 State of the Union Address that Saddam Hussein had obtained yellowcake uranium ( for nuclear-weapons construction ) in Africa.

Clarke writes that Wolfowitz attempted to connect Saddam Hussein to the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 — a theory based on the writings of Laurie Mylroie that, according to Clarke, has been exhaustively investigated and disproven.

" I think Saddam Hussein doesn ’ t believe force will be used — or if it is, he can produce a stalemate.

The statement's content was uncontroversial, saying that Saddam Hussein should not be allowed to violate U. N. resolutions, but the exclusion of ten of EU's then fifteen members was interpreted as a signal of deep division — and the difficulty of implementing the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy.