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          Timeline: Saddam’s life

          Saddam in exile in Egypt [AFP]

          April 1937: Saddam Hussein is born in the village of Tikrit in central Iraq.

          October 1956: Saddam joins the Baath party.

          October 1959: He takes part in an assassination attempt against Iraq’s ruler, General Abdul Karim Qassem.

          He flees Iraq and spends four years in exile in Egypt.

          February 1963: He returns to Baghdad after the Baath party comes to power in a military coup. The Baathists are defeated nine months later.

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          5. Saddam is jailed and elected – while in prison – as the Baath party deputy secretary-general.

          July 1968: The Baath party seizes power from Abdul Mohammed Aref. Saddam is the party’s number two.

          March 1975: He signs a border agreement with Shah of Iran.

          The latter then supported Kurdish rebellions.

          July 1979: Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr steps down and Saddam becomes president.

          September 1980: War starts between Iraq and Iran. Iraq is backed by the US during the eight-year war, in which a