{UAH} Saddam Hussein might be dead but it will be a very long time before anyone forgets him
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Saddam Hussein might be dead but it will be a very long time before anyone forgets him. He is best known for being Iraq's fifth President, he was in power when the United States invaded Iraq. Notably, Saddam was a figure whose reign of terror was supported by the United States until he could no longer fulfill America's political agenda in the Middle East. He was overthrown by the country that had previously supported him and executed by his own people.
1. Saddam had very humble beginnings. He came from a poor background and was raised by his mother after his father, a shepherd, disappeared one day. After his brother died of cancer, his mother was no longer able to take care of him, he had to steal to eat growing up.
2. Saddam's mother must have known what Saddam had coming in gis future because his name means "one who confronts" in Arabic. Other interpretations of his name include "powerful collider" and "powerful confronter."
3. He lived a secular lifestyle and he was publicly criticized by the Arab World for his lack of faith. Because of this, he converted to Islam in 1999. Saddam's official marriage was to Sajida Khairallah Talfah, who was his cousin.
4. Saddam Hussein held the longest war in the history of Iraq (from 1980 to 1988) against Iran. More than 1 million people were killed in the war.
5. During the Iraq-Iran was, the United States decided to provide Saddam and his regime with weapons and aid because because of reasons best known to them. Interestingly, the same weaponry and aid used to help Saddam was then used against the United States during the first Gulf War and the Iraq War.
6. The year Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq, he received a congratulatory note from Reverend Jacob Yasso in Detroit Michigan in the US. In appreciation, he sent $250,000 to Reverend Yasso and his congregation of Chaldean Christians. When Reverend Yasso was invited to Baghdad to meet Saddam, he presented the Iraqi dictator with the "key to the city of Detroit," courtesy of then Mayor Coleman Young. Saddam gave the church another $200,000.
7. In 2001, Saddam donated 8.94 million dollars to the American poor. Within that year, Saddam's Iraqi government announced that $94 million would be donated to Poor Americans. According to him, the donation was meant to support poor Americans.
8. In 1970, Saddam Hussein passed a law in Iraq that allowed any man to kill a woman without any punishment, with the stipulation that the killer had to be able to prove that he killed the woman in defense of his family's honour.
9. Despite the fact that using blood to write Qur'an is forbidden in Islam, Saddam still did it. A calligrapher wrote 6,000 verses and 336,000 words of the Qur'an using 57 pints of Saddam's blood over the course of 2 years. A blood donation expert estimated that it took him 9 years to donate that much blood.
10. America invaded Iraq in 2003 which marked the beginning of the Gulf War. Saddam Hussein was captured that year and was tried for war crimes. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death by hang. On December 30th 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad. Since Saddam was captured by the American forces, the weapons of mass destruction his government produced are no where to be found.
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-- 1. Saddam had very humble beginnings. He came from a poor background and was raised by his mother after his father, a shepherd, disappeared one day. After his brother died of cancer, his mother was no longer able to take care of him, he had to steal to eat growing up.
2. Saddam's mother must have known what Saddam had coming in gis future because his name means "one who confronts" in Arabic. Other interpretations of his name include "powerful collider" and "powerful confronter."
3. He lived a secular lifestyle and he was publicly criticized by the Arab World for his lack of faith. Because of this, he converted to Islam in 1999. Saddam's official marriage was to Sajida Khairallah Talfah, who was his cousin.
4. Saddam Hussein held the longest war in the history of Iraq (from 1980 to 1988) against Iran. More than 1 million people were killed in the war.
5. During the Iraq-Iran was, the United States decided to provide Saddam and his regime with weapons and aid because because of reasons best known to them. Interestingly, the same weaponry and aid used to help Saddam was then used against the United States during the first Gulf War and the Iraq War.
6. The year Saddam Hussein took power in Iraq, he received a congratulatory note from Reverend Jacob Yasso in Detroit Michigan in the US. In appreciation, he sent $250,000 to Reverend Yasso and his congregation of Chaldean Christians. When Reverend Yasso was invited to Baghdad to meet Saddam, he presented the Iraqi dictator with the "key to the city of Detroit," courtesy of then Mayor Coleman Young. Saddam gave the church another $200,000.
7. In 2001, Saddam donated 8.94 million dollars to the American poor. Within that year, Saddam's Iraqi government announced that $94 million would be donated to Poor Americans. According to him, the donation was meant to support poor Americans.
8. In 1970, Saddam Hussein passed a law in Iraq that allowed any man to kill a woman without any punishment, with the stipulation that the killer had to be able to prove that he killed the woman in defense of his family's honour.
9. Despite the fact that using blood to write Qur'an is forbidden in Islam, Saddam still did it. A calligrapher wrote 6,000 verses and 336,000 words of the Qur'an using 57 pints of Saddam's blood over the course of 2 years. A blood donation expert estimated that it took him 9 years to donate that much blood.
10. America invaded Iraq in 2003 which marked the beginning of the Gulf War. Saddam Hussein was captured that year and was tried for war crimes. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced to death by hang. On December 30th 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged in Baghdad. Since Saddam was captured by the American forces, the weapons of mass destruction his government produced are no where to be found.
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