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- Saddam Hussein was a bloody and brutal dictator who kept his country of Iraq at war almost constantly after assuming power in 1979. At least one million people died due to the machinations of Saddam. After his regime was toppled by the U.S. invasion of 2003, he wound up on a gallows, his life terminated at the end of a hangman's noose.
Saddam invaded neighboring Iran in 1980 and waged war for seven years and 11 months, making it the longest conventional war in the 20th Century. Saddam had hoped to take advantage of what he perceived as the chaos of the Iranian revolution to settle border disputes and suppress his own Shi'ite Muslim population. (Iran is predominantly Shi'ite while Hussein was a Sunni Muslim.) The war ended in a stalemate with approximately 500,000 Iraqis and 400,000 Iranians dead. Both sides, major oil producers, suffered economic losses of half-a-trillion dollars. Saddam used poison gas against Iranian troops, an atrocity even Adolf Hitler didn't engage on the battlefields of World War II.
Beginning in 1986 and continuing through 1989, Saddam launched a deliberate campaign of genocide against the Kurds in northern Iraq. The campaign also targeted areas populated by other minorities, including Assyrians and Jews. In 1988, his forces launched a poison gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja that killed as many as 5,000 people and injured as many as 10,000. In all, Saddam's three-year-long genocide against the Kurds and other minorities claimed as many as 182,000 lives.
In 1990, the war-monger Saddam invaded Kuwait with the intention of looting and annexing the oil-rich country. An international coalition was put together by the first President George Bush and freed Kuwait but left Saddam in power. His son President George W. Bush put together a second coalition army dominated by American and British forces that invaded Iraq in March 2003 to depose the dictator.
The invasion was launched on the pretext that he possessed weapons of mass destruction and was in league with al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that had launched the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Both charges were false, but it led to Saddam's capture in December 2003. He was subsequently tried and executed by the Iraqi interim government for the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in 1982. His death sentence was carried out on December 30, 2006. - David Bloom was born on 22 May 1963 in Edina, Minnesota, USA. He was married to Melanie Beal. He died on 6 April 2003 in near Baghdad, Iraq.
- Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, Vieira de Mello joined the United Nations in 1969 while studying philosophy and humanities at the University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He spent the majority of his career working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, and served in humanitarian and peacekeeping operations in Bangladesh, Sudan, Cyprus, Mozambique and Peru.
In 1981, Vieira de Mello assumed his first high-profile position, when he was appointed the Senior Political Adviser to UN forces in Lebanon. Thereafter, he occupied several important functions at UNHCR's Headquarters from 1983 to 1991 (chef de cabinet of the High Commissioner; director, Regional Bureau for Asia and Oceania; and director, Division of External Relations). Between 1991 and 1996, he served as special envoy of the High Commissioner for Cambodia, director of repatriation for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), head of civil affairs of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia, and United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator for the Great Lakes Region of Africa. In 1996 he was appointed United Nations assistant high commissioner for refugees before being posted to New York in January 1998 as under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. Vieira de Mello briefly held the position of special representative of the secretary-general in Kosovo and also served as United Nations transitional administrator in East Timor. On September 12, 2002 he was appointed United Nations high commissioner for human rights. In May of 2003, he was asked by the secretary-general to take a four-month leave of absence from his position as high commissioner to serve in Iraq as special representative of the secretary-general. It was there that he was tragically killed on August 19, 2003.
"Sergio," as he was known by the scores of government officials, UN staff members and others who considered him a good friend, was a remarkably effective international civil servant. As a result, he was asked by the United Nations to tackle some of the world's most complicated humanitarian and peacekeeping challenges. His track record of success was extraordinary, whether it was fashioning a refugee protection and resettlement scheme for Vietnamese refugees, overseeing the repatriation of 300,000 Cambodian refugees from Thailand, setting up a UN civil administration in Kosovo, or managing the political transition in East Timor. His assets included extraordinary intelligence and good judgment, graciousness and wit, and a profound dedication to the humanitarian principles that inform the UN Charter. He was the obvious choice to lead the UN effort in Iraq, to which he has given his life. His friends and colleagues at the United Nations and elsewhere will best honor his memory by persevering in the humanitarian and human rights work to which Sergio was so committed. - Ahmad Chalabi was born on 30 October 1944 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was married to Leila Osseiran. He died on 3 November 2015 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Saheb Haddad was born on 15 February 1939 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was an editor and director, known for Another Day (1978), Motaw'ie and Bahiya (1982) and Building No. 13 (1987). He died on 18 December 1994 in Baghdad, Iraq.- Actor
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Mohsin al-Azzawi was born on 1 July 1939 in Nasiriyah, Iraq. He was an actor and producer, known for The Shadow Men (1996), Theyab Al-Lail (1992) and Manawi Al Basha (2000). He died on 7 May 2023 in Baghdad, Iraq.- Khalil Al-Rifai was born on 7 July 1927 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Theyab Al-Lail (1992), The Shadow Men (1996) and Building No. 13 (1987). He died on 9 October 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Badri Hassoun Farid was born on 1 July 1927 in Karbala, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Theyab Al-Lail (1992), Al Qadisiyya (1981) and Nebuchadnezzar (1960). He was married to Ibtisam Faread. He died on 17 November 2017 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Abdul Sattar Al-Basry was born on 22 February 1947 in Basra, Iraq. He was an actor, known for The Shadow Men (1996), Theyab Al-Lail (1992) and Ala'm al Seet Waheeba (1997). He died on 12 May 2024 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Suad Abdallah was an actress, known for Tamma Elashrar (1999), Oyun la tanam (1982) and Building No. 13 (1987). She died on 23 March 2014 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr was born on 1 July 1914 in Tikrit, Iraq. He died on 4 October 1982 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Mahmoud Hussein was born in 1949. He was an actor, known for Samco (2014), Al Dars Al Awal (2012) and Madinat Al-Qawa'id (City of Basis) (1999). He died on 18 April 2023 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Ghazi Al-Takritee was born on 5 June 1930 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Clash of Loyalties (1983), Building No. 13 (1987) and The Thirsties (1972). He died on 25 June 1997 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Sadiq Ali Shahin was born on 19 March 1939 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Al-nahr (1979), The Shadow Men (1996) and Theyab Al-Lail (1992). He died on 25 January 2013 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Abd al-Jabbar Kadhim was born on 10 February 1949 in Wasit, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Theyab Al-Lail (1992), The Shadow Men (1996) and Hob Fey Baghdad (1987). He died on 21 April 1996 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Ghazi al-Kinani was born on 1 July 1937 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Al-ayyam al-tawila (1980), Al Qadisiyya (1981) and Clash of Loyalties (1983). He died on 15 July 2023 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Director
- Actor
Ali Al Ansari was born on 19 June 1944 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was a director and actor, known for Burj al Akrab (1998) and Al Qadisiyya (1981). He died on 14 October 2016 in Baghdad, Iraq.- Afifa Iskandar was born on 10 December 1921 in Mosul, Iraq. She was an actress, known for Yom said (1940) and El kahira-Baghdad (1947). She died on 22 October 2012 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Mahdy El Hosseiny was born on 12 June 1940 in Iraq. He was an actor and production manager, known for Vacation Days (1985), Theyab Al-Lail (1992) and Naji Attallah's Squad (2012). He died on 12 July 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq.- Farouk Al-Qaisi was born on 1 January 1941 in Baghdad, Iraq. Farouk was a director, known for Ala'm al Seet Waheeba (1997), Not To Hamman, Pharaoh (1977) and Habl Al Mawada (2006). Farouk died on 9 February 2013 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Manaf Talib was born on 22 February 1940 in Wasit, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Theyab Al-Lail (1992), Hob Fey Baghdad (1987) and Another Day (1978). He died on 26 June 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Julio Anguita Parrado was born on 3 January 1971 in Córdoba, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain. He was an actor, known for Bedford (2004) and History (2000). He died on 7 April 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Talib Al-Furati was born on 4 February 1935 in Babylon, Iraq. He was an actor, known for The Thirsties (1972), Another Day (1978) and Building No. 13 (1987). He was married to Azhar Hammody. He died on 6 June 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq.
- Colmar von der Goltz was born on 12 August 1843 in Adlig Bielkenfeld, Labiau, East Prussia, Prussia [now Polessk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was married to Auguste Schliffke. He died on 19 April 1916 in Baghdad, Baghdad, Ottoman Empire [now Baghdad, Iraq].
- Hani Hani was born on 25 May 1941 in Mosul, Iraq. He was an actor, known for Another Day (1978), Al Qadisiyya (1981) and Al-qannas (1981). He was married to Zahra Al-Rowbaei. He died on 26 February 1993 in Baghdad, Iraq.