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News Summary: Saddam-era gas victims seek probe

PROBE SOUGHT: Twenty victims of Saddam Hussein's 1988 chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, Iraq, requested a judicial investigation of F...
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Victims of Saddam-era gas attack seek French probe

Twenty victims of Saddam Hussein's 1988 chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, requested a judicial investigation of French suppliers on ...
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Saddam Hussein صدام حسين

5th President of Iraq
In office 16 July 1979 – 9 April 2003
Prime Minister	List Sa'dun Hammadi Mohammed Hamza Zubeidi Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai
Preceded by	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Succeeded by	Coalition Provisional Authority
Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq
In office 16 July 1979 – 9 April 2003
Preceded by	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Prime Minister of Iraq
In office 29 May 1994 – 9 April 2003
Preceded by	Ahmad Husayn Khudayir as-Samarrai
Succeeded by	Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum (as Acting President of the Governing Council of Iraq)
In office 16 July 1979 – 23 March 1991
Preceded by	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Succeeded by	Sa'dun Hammadi
Secretary of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
In office January 1992 – 30 December 2006
Preceded by	Michel Aflaq
Succeeded by	Vacant
Secretary of the Iraqi Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
In office 16 July 1979 – 30 December 2006
National Secretary	Michel Aflaq (until 1989) Himself
Preceded by	Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Succeeded by	Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri
Deputy Secretary of the Iraqi Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
In office 1966 – 16 July 1979
Preceded by	Unknown
Succeeded by	Taha Yassin Ramadan
Personal details
Born	Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (1937-04-28)28 April 1937 Al-Awja, Saladin Province, Iraq
Died	30 December 2006(2006-12-30) (aged 69) Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq
Nationality	Iraqi
Political party	Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (1957–1966) Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party (1966–2006) (NPF)
Spouse(s)	Sajida Talfah Samira Shahbandar
Children	Uday Hussein Qusay Hussein Raghad Hussein Rana Hala Hussein
Religion	Sunni Islam