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28 April 1937
Saddam Hussein was born into poverty in Al Awja, near the village of Tikrit. Fatherless, he was brought up by his mother and cruel step-father.
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1947
He left home at age 10 to live with his maternal uncle, Khairallah Tulfah.
His uncle had been imprisoned for taking part in an anti British
uprising and Saddam was influenced by his anti Western, anti Zionist
politics.
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1955
At 18 he moves to Baghdad with Khairallah and family (which
included Sajida, Khairallah's daughter). In Baghdad, he joins the
Ba'th Party.
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1959
After a failed assassination attempt, Saddam flees to Damascus
disguised as a woman and then moves to Cairo where he remains in
exile.
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1963
Saddam returns to Baghdad and marries Sajida. Whilst in exile in
Cairo, he had become engaged to her. This was an arranged
marriage as Khairallah had promised his daughter to him since
childhood.
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1964
Uday Hussein is born.
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1966
Qusay Hussein is born.
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1967
Raghad Hussein is born.
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1969
Rana Hussein is born.
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1972
Hala Hussein is born.
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1983
Saddam arranges the marriage of 16 year old Raghad to Hussein
Kamel Al Majid. This angers his half-brother Barzan as he had
hoped his son would marry her. This marks the start of a family feud
between the Al Majids and the Al Ibrahims that was to last for years.
The angry Barzan leaves the country for Switzerland where he
becomes the Iraqi UN Ambassador.
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1985
Qusay Hussein marries Sahar Abdul Rashid, daughter of an Iraqi war
hero. This is the first marriage out of the immediate family although
it's a politically motivated one bringing the family closer to deposed
President Al Bakr's. They have two children and then separate.
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1986
Saddam arranges the marriage of his second daughter Rana to
Saddam Kamel Al Majid (Hussein Kamel's younger brother). This
further angers the Al Ibrahims.
Samira Shahbandar the beautiful blonde wife of the General
Manager of Iraqi Airways divorces her husband. She then marries
Saddam becoming his second wife. They have one son, Ali (date
unknown). Sajida has a nervous breakdown.
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1987
Ali Hassan Al Majid, Saddam's cousin, makes the name Chemical Ali
for himself after leading the Special Forces in the killing of 100,000
Kurds in northern Iraq. His nickname derives from his use of nerve
and mustard gas on the town of Halabja.
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1988
Trying to make amends with the Al Ibrahims, Saddam arranges for
Barzan's daughter, Saja, to marry his son Uday. They marry and
days later Saja runs away from her new husband to her mother-in-
law, Sajida's house. The sadistic Uday has beat her. After a few
months she officially separates from Uday and returns to her family in
Geneva.
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Oct. 1988
Uday kills Saddam's personal valet, Kamel Hanna, at a public party.
Kamel Hanna had introduced Saddam to Samira. Saddam is furious
when he learns of the private activities of his psychopathic son.
Uday is imprisoned, stripped of titles, and banished to Geneva (he
later gets deported back to Baghdad). Qusay becomes Saddam's
favoured son.
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5 May 1989
Saddam has his brother-in-law and closest childhood friend, Adnan
Khairallah, killed in a helicopter crash. Sajida learns the truth of her
brother's death and becomes estranged from Saddam.
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August 1995
Uday shoots his uncle Watban in the leg with an automatic weapon.
Fearing they are next, Saddam's sons-in-law, Hussein and Saddam
Kamel defect to Jordan taking their wives and families with them.
This is Saddam's biggest betrayal.
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February 1996
Hussein Kamel has a nervous breakdown. The defectors return to
Iraq with their wives and children. They are forced to divorce their
wives. Ali Hassan Al Majid (Chemical Ali) leads an attack upon the
house they are occupying. Both sons-in-law are killed.
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22 July 2003
Troops of the 101st Airborne, aided by Special Forces kill Uday,
Qusay, and Qusay's 14 yr old son during a raid on a home near
Mosul. They are buried in a cemetery in Tikrit.
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13 Dec. 2003
Saddam is captured by the 4th Infantry Division, aided by Special
Forces, hiding in a bolthole in the ground on a farm not far from his
native village of Tikrit.
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30 Dec. 2006
Saddam Hussein is executed.
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