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Saddam Hussein: The Reign Of Terror
Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was president of Iraq for a period of twenty-four years. He was the son of Subha Tulfah al-Musallat and Hussein Abid al-Majid.
He was a dictator from the year of 1979-2003. his nickname was “the madman of the Middle East”. He was from Tikrit, Iraq and He was born in Al-Awjac, Iraq, on April 28, 1937, and he died on December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein was known for using terror against his own people of Iraq. His aweful reign has been known to all making as the “Reign of Terror”. The Reign of Terror was a long period of violence that happened right after the onset of the French Revolution. Saddam Hussein had gained international notoriety for torturing and killing thousands of his very own people. the top
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Saddam Hussein murdered approximately forty of his very own relatives and also executed over 40,000 of his own people. Saddam Hussein held the entire nation in his very own hands. He made many people die at just the snap of his fingers and he more than likely never felt a percentage of guilt, depression, or anxiety. In my opinion, he looks as if all he felt was that he was perfection and all-powerful and self-conceit. He had no good to him. He murdered so many thousands of innocent, nice human beings. Some that never got to grow up and see the good in life, Some that did die, but the loved ones of that person will never be the same again,some that never get to live to see the world, Some that got free from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein but will never be the same because of what Saddam did to millions of friends, families, infants, toddlers, teenagers, and adults.Some people who saw with their own eyes what Saddam Hussein did to people will never be forgotten. Iraq’s population is 33.42 million people. After Saddam Hussein’s death, the population had increased since his death on December 30, 2006. Saddam Hussein had a trial date set up for October 2005-November 2006. On Saturday, December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death

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