Article: IRAQ - Profile - Saddam Hussein 'Al Takriti'.

On April 28, 2001, Saddam Hussein celebrated his 64th birthday in events of gigantic proportions, as usual. While massive festivities were staged across the central areas which his Baathist regime controls, he kept to his tradition of spending his birthday in Baghdad with children coming from all of Iraq's provinces, including the Kurdish north.

Saddam holds several positions. Apart from being chairman of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and president of the republic, he is the prime minister, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and secretary-general of the ruling Baath Party's National (pan-Arab) and Regional (Iraqi) Commands. He chairs several ...

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