Hussein Saddam Definition
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Iraqi military and political leader who became president of Iraq in 1979. He waged war against Iran (1980–1988), and his invasion and occupation of Kuwait provoked the Gulf War (1990–1991). He was deposed in a US-led invasion of Iraq (2003), convicted of crimes against humanity, and executed.
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