* 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.

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was born in the town of Al-Awja, 13 km ( 8 mi ) from the Iraqi town of Tikrit, to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat tribal group, a sub-group of the Al-Bu Nasir ( البو ناصر ) tribe.

In 1958, a year after Saddam had joined the Ba ' ath party, army officers led by General Abd al-Karim Qasim overthrew Faisal II of Iraq in the 14 July Revolution.

* Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( 1937 – 2006 ), President of Iraq

* Hussein ' Abd al-Majid ( disappeared 1936 ), Iraqi, Saddam Hussein's father

He was accused by US Army officers of helping Saddam Hussein plot assassination attempts He was convicted in 1959 of the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qasim and sentenced to death, although Qassim pardoned Najim.

Ibrahim Ahmad Abd Al-Sattar Muhammad Al-Tikriti ( 9 September 1956 – 28 October 2010 ) was the chief of staff of the Iraqi armed forces under the rule of Saddam Hussein from 1999 until 2003.

Rukan Razuki Abd al-Ghafar ( Ar: روكان رزوقي عبد الغفور, born 1956 in Tikrit ) was the head of the tribal affairs office in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and a member of Saddam's inner circle.

He never knew his father, Hussein ' Abid al-Majid, who disappeared six months before Saddam was born.

The Al-Anfal Campaign was a genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people ( and many others ) in Iraqi Kurdistan led by the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid.

In August 1995, Raghad and her husband Hussein Kamel al-Majid and Rana and her husband, Saddam Kamel al-Majid, defected to Jordan, taking their children with them.

Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq's biological and nuclear weapons programs.

On August 21, 2006, the trial of Saddam Hussein and six codefendants, including Hassan al-Majid (" Chemical Ali "), opened on charges of genocide against the Kurds.

* Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, minister of industry and military industrialisation, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of his biological and nuclear arms programs.

* Recently defected Iraqi weapons scientist and son-in-law to Saddam Hussein, Hussein Kamel al-Majid, returns to Iraq.

Neither Saddam Hussein nor his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid ( who commanded Iraqi forces in northern Iraq in that period, which earned him a nickname of " Chemical Ali ") were charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for crimes against humanity relating to the events at Halabja.

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

On August 7 of that year, Kamel and his wife defected from Iraq, along with Kamel's brother, Col. Saddam Kamel al-Majid, and the brother's wife, Rana Hussein, another of Saddam Hussein's daughters.

The Court was responsible for the trial of Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al-Majid ( also known as " Chemical Ali "), former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, former deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and other former senior officials in the deposed Ba ' athist regime.

In 1986, she married Saddam Kamel al-Majid, brother of Hussein Kamel al-Majid, her elder sister Raghad's husband, she has four children.

They returned to Iraq after receiving assurances from Saddam Hussein that he would pardon Kamel and his brother, Hussein Kamel al-Majid.

The al-Anfal Campaign (), also known as the Kurdish Genocide, Operation Anfal or simply Anfal, was a genocidal campaign against the Kurdish people ( and other non-Arab populations ) in Northern Iraq, led by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein and headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid in the final stages of Iran-Iraq War.

The Anfal campaign began in 1986 and lasted until 1989, and was headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid ( a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from Saddam's hometown of Tikrit ).

Saddam Kamel Hassan al-Majid (?

He was married to Rana Hussein and was the brother of Hussein Kamel al-Majid ( who was also married to a daughter of Saddam, Raghad Hussein ).

* Chemical Ali – Ali Hassan al-Majid, minister in Saddam Hussein's government held responsible for the use of chemical weapons at Halabja.