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Walter Whitman

President of Iraq (1979 - ). Born April 28, 1937, in the poor farming village of Tikrit, Iraq, where he was raised by his widowed mother. In 1955, he moved to the neighboring city of Baghdad, where he became involved in the Arab Nationalist Movement. As a fervent member of the Arab Baath Socialist Party, Saddam orchestrated the 1959 assassination attempt of Iraqi prime minister ‘Abd al-Karim Qasim. After the failed effort, Saddam escaped to Egypt. He settled in Cairo, where he attended the Cairo School of Law.

When the Baathists seized control of Iraq in 1963, Saddam returned to his native country and was named assistant secretary general of the party. Within a few months the Baath party was overthrown. After years of struggle between Iraq’s existing government and the opposing socialists, the Baath party was re-established in a 1968 coup. Saddam, who played a prominent ...

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