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"Long live Iraq. Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!"
Born in 1937, Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq from July 16 , 1979, until April 9, 2003, when he was deposed during the United States-led invasion of Iraq. As a leading member of the Iraqi Baath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought his party to long-term power.
On November 5, 2006, Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity in ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite villagers in the town of Dujail in 1982 and was sentenced to death by hanging. His half brother and the judge at the trial of the original case in 1982 were also convicted of similar charges. When the judge announced the verdict, Saddam shouted "God is great!" and "Long live Iraq. Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!"
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