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| - Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (born April 28, 1937, in al-Awja, Iraq, died January 2, 2010 in Washington D. C., Green Zone Military Commanding Staff Center), was Federal Field Marshall, top-ranked army officer, political hardliner, brilliant military strategist and tactician and specialist in armoured warfare.
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| - Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (born April 28, 1937, in al-Awja, Iraq, died January 2, 2010 in Washington D. C., Green Zone Military Commanding Staff Center), was Federal Field Marshall, top-ranked army officer, political hardliner, brilliant military strategist and tactician and specialist in armoured warfare. Saddam was born in middle-class family. His father was doctor, his mother was construction engineer on Basra Rafinery. Saddam had three brothers and two sisters. Both sisters joined Ba'ath Party and became leading party politicians. Two of his brothers became enterprisers and one of them was even Muammar Gaddafi government economical advisor. Third brother became army officer and later, medical scientist. Saddam graduated elementary school with great successes and in 14 years he went to Alexandrian Military Gymnasium, elite presitge military school established in 1310 by ayyubidan sultan Mutassim al-Ayyub. In 1956, he successfully ended AMG and joined Damascus Tank and Armoured Warfare Training School. He became staff sergeant and also joined training of Republican Guard Elite Tank Brigade. In 1962 he went with his 7th Tank Division, as captain and commander of 455th Tank Company, to Indian borders for first time. From 1964 to 1979 he served in 7th Tank Division and in 1980, he joined Republican Guard Political Military Academy and illegally joined Ba'ath Party, despite apolitical status of armed forces.
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