Actor · Idea · Novel
Born Apr 28, 1937 · al-Awja, Iraq
Active 1980–2006 · Awards: Order of Stara Planina, Order of José Martí, Order of Mubarak the Great, Order of the Yugoslav Star, Order of the Two Rivers, Order of Civil Merit, Order of Isabella the Catholic, National Order of Merit
Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi Socialist politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. As leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Ba'ath Party.