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Saddam Hussein. Saddam never followed a policy aimed at the good of
Muslims and attempting to defend the people's interests. All the mea-
sures he has taken up until today, directed by certain circles opposed to
religion, have been aimed at harming Muslims and his people. The fact
that throughout Saddam's administration the lives of the Iraqi people
were full of war and conflicts, and that most of these were aimed at
other Muslim countries, is an important indication of this fact.
After securing power, Saddam constantly sought out war and
conflict. In 1980 he suddenly invaded Iran for no reason, thus starting a
war that over the next eight years took the lives of hundreds of thou-
sands of Iraqis and Iranians alike. Two years after the war finally
ended, he then invaded Kuwait without cause and thus brought about
the 1991 Gulf War. Yet Saddam's terror was not only aimed at neigh-
boring countries but at his own people, too. Throughout his reign those
seen as opponents of the regime and various political and ethnic groups

Terrible images of Saddam's massacre at Halabja.