Tikrit
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Tikrit, historically romanized as Tekrit, is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of t
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Saddam Hussein
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Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003 during the Iraq war. He previously served as the vice president
Tikrit
…birthplace of Muslim military leader Saladin. Many Iraqi government officials during the Ba'athist period (1968–2003) were from Tikrit; former president Saddam Hussein was born in the village of Al-Awja, 13 km south of the city. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a United States-led coalition, Tikrit was one of…
Official portrait, 1979
Saddam in his youth as a shepherd in his village, near Tikrit, 1956
Saddam and other Ba'athists posing on top of a tank after a successful coup in February 1963
Saddam and al-Bakr, de jure president of Iraq alongside Hafez al-Assad of Syria at an Arab League summit in Baghdad in November 1978