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Saddam Hussein was born in 1937 to a poor family living in Tikrit. Saddam would later move to Baghdad when he was teenager and began to participate in multiple coup attempts which eventually resulted in Saddam's cousin becoming the director of Iraq in July 1968. Around 11 years later Saddam would take the place of his cousin as the director of Iraq.

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This image was taken on february 1977 and shows Saddam (left) with
Leonid brezhnev (right) the general secretary of the cpsu central committee. This shows what Saddam what have looked like around the time he became the director of Iraq.

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Saddam's secret police would regularly ignore the rights of Iraq's people in order to keep Saddam in power. Saddam also led a lavish lifestyle owning 20 palaces all across Iraq while his people lived in poverty. Later in 1980 Saddam would engage in a war with Iran which ended up costing millions of lives for both countries with Saddam using poisonous gases against Iran's military. Saddam would also in 1988, invade Kuwait which was part of Iraq's own population being located in the northern part of Iraq.

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In 1991 the U.S. invaded Iraq which ended up pushing back his military but still failed to remove Saddam from power. Following the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. would continue to make moves against Iraq through UN sanctions as well as airstrikes meant to destroy Iraq's chemical/nuclear weapons as well as prevent them from making more.

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On march 2003 the U.S. decided to invade Iraq again with the intent of removing Saddam from power. Saddam went into hiding during the U.S. invasion and his government quickly fell. The U.S. declared that Saddam Hussein was the most wanted member of his regime and so put an intense search for Saddam and his close advisors into action. On July 22nd Saddam's sons named Qusay and Uday were found and killed with Saddam himself being found a couple months later on December 13th.

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Image shows a presidential palace that was bombed in Baghdad during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Image was taken by the Quickbird satellite.

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Saddam was hiding in a small 6 to 8 foot deep hole, which was located close to his hometown Tikrit. When Saddam was found he was unkempt with a large beard and matted hair. Saddam seemed to have accepted his arrest and didn't resist too much however, he still seemed to not be apologetic for any of his actions during his rule over Iraq and was defiant in his trial taking place in 2006.

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This image shows the inside of the hole that Saddam Hussein was hiding inside of with the opening being shown acting as ventilation.

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This image shows the U.S. military removing the cover of hole that Saddam Hussein was living in. The dirt covering the hole blended the hole in with the surrounding area.

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This image was taken after Saddam was discovered and captured. Saddam was on the run for nine months and his body had suffered from the experience. Saddam before he went into hiding was said to have been obsessed with his Hygiene.

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I chose to do my project on the capture of Saddam Hussein because I was interested in how the book described his capture. I also was interested in how he was captured because political figures especially when they are being actively pursued take extreme caution in concealing their presence.

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Bombed palace in Baghdad. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 26 Mar 2018.
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Leonid brezhnev (right) general secretary of the cpsu central committe with saddam hussein, deputy general secretary of the arab socialist renaissance party (baath party), kremlin, moscow, ussr, february 1977, saddam hussein on ' an official friendly visit to ussr'.. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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