Saddam Hussein/Related Articles

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Iraq [r]: Country in the Middle East, currently transitioning from rule by the US. ^[e]
Ba'ath Party [r]: Add brief definition or description

Tikrit [r]: Saddam Hussein's place of birth, a town in the Sunni Triangle of central Iraq ^[e]
Uday Hussein [r]: Saddam Hussein's elder son, who had lost authority to his brother Qusay Hussein due to erratic behavior, but still was in the privileged inner circle and prepared the Saddam Fedayeen irregulars ^[e]
Qusay Hussein [r]: Younger son (1966-2003) and apparent heir to Saddam Hussein; head of the Special Security Organization and other key posts ^[e]

Saddam Fedayeen [r]: An Iraqi paramilitary force, fanatically loyal to Saddam Hussein and usually commanded by his son, Uday Hussein, used for internal control, and, surprisingly, against the supply lines of US forces in the Iraq War ^[e]

Iran-Iraq War [r]: War between Iran and Iraq, 1980-1988, with very high casualties on both sides, but an inconclusive result ^[e]
Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. ^[e]
Operation DESERT FOX [r]: A December 1998 U.S. and U.K. air campaign against Iraq, to punish Saddam Hussein for interferences with weapons of mass destruction searches by the United Nations UNSCOM inspectors ^[e]
Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation ^[e]
Iraq and weapons of mass destruction [r]: Threats, development programs and actual use, of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq, from the 1970s through the Iraq War ^[e]

Chemical weapon [r]: A weapon that cause death or disease by means of chemical interaction with the metabolism of the victim, as opposed to causing injury through blast, thermal, or other effects not on a molecular level ^[e]