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Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, , in the northern town of Tikrit, Iraq , to a landless family. After his mother remarried, the family moved to the tiny village of Uja, a few miles south of Tikrit, where they led an impoverished life. His parents did not want to send him to school, but when he turned ten he insisted on moving to Tikrit to stay with his maternal uncle, Khayr Allah Tilfah, and attended primary school there.

Later, as an exile in Cairo , he completed his secondary education and took some classes in law. As vice president of Iraq, he took private lessons in law, but he never completed his formal education. On July 14, , General Abdul-Karim Qassem — toppled the monarchy in Baghdad and established a semibenevolent dictatorship.

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Hussein and his collaborators managed to wound the Iraqi dictator, but Hussein himself was wounded in his thigh and one of his team was killed, apparently from bullets shot by their own colleagues. Hussein managed to escape to Syria , an odyssey that became the object of a heroic myth weaved by his media after he became president. Hussein soon left Damascus for Cairo, where he lived a modest life sponsored by Nasser.

Hussein immediately left Cairo and arrived in Baghdad, where he became a midlevel internal security official. This was also when he married his maternal cousin, Sajidah Khayr Allah Tilfah. According to reliable sources, the coup was supported, if not actually engineered, by the U. Over this issue there were deep disagreements between the CIA and the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

The Israeli analysts were convinced that Qassem was not a Communist, nor a Soviet satellite, and they had sufficient evidence that he was not an enemy of Israel. In the CIA, if it was indeed involved, had the upper hand. The Baath regime under General Abdul Salam Arif — as a titular figurehead launched a bloody campaign against Iraqi Communists who, despite deep reservations, had supported Qassem.