{"id":3334,"date":"2023-03-19T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dictatorbaron.com\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T09:33:19","slug":"what-country-did-saddam-hussein-used-to-be-the-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dictatorbaron.com\/what-country-did-saddam-hussein-used-to-be-the-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"What country did saddam hussein used to be the leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saddam Hussein was the leader of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. He was deposed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was captured in December of that year. He was tried by an Iraqi court and executed in 2006.<\/p>\n

The country that Saddam Hussein used to be the leader of is Iraq.<\/p>\n

Who was ruling Iraq before Saddam? <\/h2>\n

Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr was the president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979. He was born in 1914 in Tikrit, Iraq, and died in 1982 in Baghdad. Al-Bakr entered the Iraqi Military Academy in 1938 after spending six years as a primary-school teacher.<\/p>\n

In August of 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait in an attempt to control the lucrative oil supply of the Middle East. The United States and the UN Security Council demanded that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein withdraw Iraqi troops from Kuwait, but Hussein refused. This resulted in the Gulf War, in which a coalition of forces led by the United States fought against Iraq to liberate Kuwait.<\/p>\n

What is the old name of Iraq <\/h3>\n