Saddam Hussein: Timeline

1968   Saddam Hussein becomes the Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq Iraq

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 after a coup d'état Coup d'état

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1979   Iraq Iraq

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i President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him.

1990   Saddam Hussein releases the Western hostages.

1991   Gulf War: On Baghdad Baghdad

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 radio, Iraq Iraq

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i leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait Kuwait

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. Iraqi soldiers set fire to Kuwaiti oil fields as they retreat.

1991   In Iraq Iraq

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, Saddam Hussein releases 6 U.S. United States

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, 3 British United Kingdom

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 and 1 Italian prisoner of war Prisoner of war

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1994   Iraq disarmament crisis Iraq disarmament crisis

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: UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through Israel Israel

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i intelligence reports, that Qusay Hussein, Saddam Hussein's son, is the key player in efforts by the Iraq Iraq

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i government to hide the country's alleged illegal weapons.

1995   Iraq disarmament crisis Iraq disarmament crisis

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: Following the defection of his son-in-law, Hussein Kamel al Majid, minister of industry and military industrialisation, Saddam Hussein makes new revelations about the full extent of Iraq Iraq

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's biological and nuclear weapons programs. Iraq Iraq

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 also withdraws its last UN United Nations

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 declaration of prohibited biological weapons and turns over a large amount of new documents on its WMD programs.

1998   Iraq disarmament crisis Iraq disarmament crisis

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: Iraq Iraq

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i President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Kofi Annan

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, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad Baghdad

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, preventing military action by the U.S. United States

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 and Britain United Kingdom

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1998   Iraq disarmament crisis Iraq disarmament crisis

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: The U.S. Congress passes the "Iraq Iraq

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 Liberation Act", which states that the United States United States

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 wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government with a democratic institution.

2002   Iraq disarmament crisis Iraq disarmament crisis

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: - The United Nations Security Council United Nations Security Council

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 unanimously approves UN Security Council Resolution 1441, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm Disarmament

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 or face ''"serious consequences"''.

2003   The first American bombs drop on Baghdad, Iraq. President Saddam Hussein and his sons do not comply with President Bush's 48-hour mandate demanding their exit from Iraq Iraq

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2003   Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.

2004   Preliminary hearings begin in Iraq Iraq

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 in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

2004   Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq Iraq

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 is arrested.

2005   Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, march through Baghdad Baghdad

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 denouncing the U.S. occupation of Iraq, 2 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.