Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.

Saddam Hussein in 1998
Saddam Hussein in 1998 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Saddam Hussein in 1956
Saddam Hussein in 1956 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Saddam Hussein in 1998 (3x4 close cropped)
Saddam Hussein in 1998 (3x4 close cropped) (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Iraq 1963 - Saddam and other Ba'athists
Iraq 1963 - Saddam and other Ba'athists (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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