US Army Sergeant Craig Zentkovich from Connecticut belonging to the 1st Brigade Combat Team photographs a pink bedroom at Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace 13 April 2003. The palace is located in a vast military compound near the airport southwest of the capital. AFP PHOTO/Romeo GACAD / AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD
This unsourced picture allegedly shows ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein being dragged out of his hiding following his capture by US troops 13 December 2003 in an underground hole at a farm in the village of ad-Dawr, near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq. The picture is one of a series of images of the deposed dictator unauthorized for release by the US army that has been circulating in recent days on the internet. AFP PHOTO/HO / AFP PHOTO / HO
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein yells at the court as a bailiff attempts to silence him during the delivery of his verdict in his trial held under tight security in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone, 05 November 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death for his role in the killing in 1982 of nearly 150 people in the mainly Shiite village of Dujail, north of Baghdad, after a failed attempt on the former dictator’s life. AFP PHOTO/POOL/DAVID FURST / AFP PHOTO / AFP POOL / DAVID FURST
A video grab taken from al-Iraqiya television shows ousted Iraq president Saddam Hussein moments before being hanged in Baghdad, 30 December 2006. Iraqi state televsion showed a brief film of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein being placed in a noose by masked hangmen today, cutting away just before his execution. AFP PHOTO/DSK / AFP PHOTO / Al Iraqyia TV / HO
An Iraqi shopkeeper holds stamps bearing portraits of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein at his shop in the capital Baghdad on December 28, 2016.
While Saddam was brutal to those who opposed him and led his country into two disastrous wars, there are those who still look back fondly on his time in power, especially in comparison to the years of devastating internal violence and ineffective governance that followed his overthrow in 2003.
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