Look into the life of Saddam Hussein

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Hussein, Saddam (1937- ), authoritarian president of Iraq since 1979 who has led his country into two devastating wars. Born to a poor farming family in Tikrît, a town north of Baghdâd, Hussein was raised by his widowed mother and other relatives. He moved to Baghdâd in 1955 and became involved in politics, joining the opposition Baath Party, an Arab nationalist movement. Hussein rose quickly within the party and in 1959 helped organize an assassination attempt on Abdul Karim Kassem, the military president of Iraq. Both Kassem and Hussein were injured in the gun battle, and Hussein fled to Cairo.

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