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Article: THE TARGET SADDAM HUSSEIN'S LIFE.(Wire/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2003
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Saddam was born April 28, 1937, the son of a poor farmer in a small village near Tikrit, a town on the Tigris River about 100 miles north of Baghdad. His father died before his son's birth and Saddam was raised by an uncle.
He has a tattoo on his right hand, three dark-blue dots in a line near the wrist, which is one given to village children when they are only 5 or 6 years old as a sign of their tribal roots.
In his teenage years, Saddam immersed himself
in the anti-British and anti-Western atmosphere of the day. At college in Baghdad he joined the Baath Party, part of a movement that aims for Arab unity.
In 1957, he joined the ...