Saddam Hussein Biography and Timeline — Page 6

Trial

Resolution 1483 calls upon the states of the United Nations to support actions that facilitate the prosecution of the members of Saddam Husseins regime responsible for crimes and atrocities

Role range: 2003-2003

UN Resolution 1483

Resolution 1483 recognizes the authority, responsibilities, and obligations of the United States and the United Kingdom as occupying powers of Iraq under a unified command. Resolution 1483 calls upon the states of the United Nations to support actions that facilitate the prosecution of the members of Saddam Husseins regime responsible for crimes and atrocities

Role range: 2003-2003

United Nations

Resolution 1483 recognizes the authority, responsibilities, and obligations of the United States and the United Kingdom as occupying powers of Iraq under a unified command. Resolution 1483 calls upon the states of the United Nations to support actions that facilitate the prosecution of the members of Saddam Husseins regime responsible for crimes and atrocities

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Resolution 1483 calls upon the states of the United Nations to support actions that facilitate the prosecution of the members of Saddam Husseins regime responsible for crimes and atrocities

UN Resolution 1483

Resolution 1483 calls upon the states of the United Nations to support actions that facilitate the prosecution of the members of Saddam Husseins regime responsible for crimes and atrocities

Invasion of Iraq

During a raid by the US 101st Airborne Division and men from Task Force 20, Saddam Husseins sons Uday and Qusay, and one of his grandsons were killed in a massive fire-fight

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Iraqi Special Tribunal

The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam Hussein and his aides for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Trial

The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam Hussein and his aides for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Arrest of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein is captured by US soldiers in a 6ft by 8ft hole

Role range: 2003-2003

Arrest of Saddam Hussein

Operation Red Dawn was launched after gaining actionable intelligence identifying two likely locations of Saddams whereabouts codenamed Objective Wolverine 1 and Wolverine 2, near the town of ad-Dawr.

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Arrest of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was captured by the US Armys 4th Infantry Division and members of Task Force 121 during Operation Red Dawn.

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Arrest of Saddam Hussein

The First Brigade Combat team of the 4th ID, in addition to Special Forces from Task Force 121 were assigned the mission to capture or kill Saddam Hussein.

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Arrest of Saddam Hussein

Found hiding in a spider hole during Operation Red Dawn & captured

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Red Dawn

Found hiding in a spider hole during Operation Red Dawn & captured

Role range: 2003-2003 – 1979-2003

Arrest of Saddam Hussein

Hussein is given prisoner-of-war status

Trial

Legal custody of Saddam Hussein passes to the Iraqi interim Government but physical custody remains in American military hands

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Goes on trial for war crimes

Trial

Saddam Hussein is arraigned before an Iraqi judge on seven preliminary charges

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Saddam appears confident and defiant throughout the 46-minute hearing. Alternating between listening to and gesturing at the judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, he questioned the legitimacy of the tribunal set up to try him. He called the court a "play" aimed at Bushs chances of winning the US presidential elections

Role range: 2003-2003

Massacre

Formal charges are filed against Saddam Hussein and other co-defendants in connection with Government atrocities committed in the al-Dujail region against the people of al-Dujail

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Formal charges are filed against Saddam Hussein and other co-defendants in connection with Government atrocities committed in the al-Dujail region against the people of al-Dujail

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Saddam is charged by the Special Tribunal with the first of an expected series of charges, relating to the mass killings of the inhabitants of the village of Dujail in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt against him

Role range: 2003-2003

Iraqi Special Tribunal

The first trial began before the Iraqi Special Tribunal on 19 October 2005

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Particular attention was paid during the trial to activities in violent campaigns against the Kurds in the north during the Iran mins Iraq War, against the Shiites in the south in 1991 and 1999 to put down revolts, and in Dujail after a failed assassination

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Saddam asserted in his defense that he had been unlawfully overthrown, and was still the president of Iraq. 1st day of the trial

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

The first trial began before the Iraqi Special Tribunal on 19 October 2005. Remained in custody by United States forces at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, along with eleven senior Baathist officials.

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

attempt on 8 July 1982, during the Iran mins Iraq War.

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

He added, "Neither do I recognize the body that has designated and authorized you, nor the aggression because all that has been built on false basis is false."

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

He rejected the tribunal's legitimacy and independence from the control of the foreign occupation. "I do not respond to this so-called court, with all due respect to its people, and I retain my constitutional right as the president of Iraq", Saddam declared.

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Iraqi authorities put Saddam and seven other former Iraqi officials on trial on 19 October 2005, four days after the 15 October 2005 referendum on the new Iraq constitution.

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

The tribunal specifically charged the defendants with the killing of 148 Shiites from Dujail, in retaliation for the failed assassination attempt of 8 July 1982. As in his pre-trial appearance, at the opening of the 19 October Trial Saddam appeared defiant.

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Mussawi delivers the final arguments for the prosecution, calling for Saddam Hussein, his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti & former Vice President, Taha Yassin Ramadan, to be sentenced to death

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Saddam Hussein announces a boycott of the trial, saying it makes a mockery of international and Iraqi law and is driven by "malicious" US aims

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

A second and separate trial begins on 21 August 2006, trying Saddam and six co-defendants for genocide during the Anfal military campaign against the Kurds of northern Iraq

Role range: 2003-2003

Massacre

Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shias in Tigris river city of Dujail in 1982, sentenced to death by hanging

Role range: 2003-2003

Trial

Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity for the killing of 148 Shias in Tigris river city of Dujail in 1982, sentenced to death by hanging

Role range: 2003-2003

Massacre

Saddams appeal is rejected and the death sentence upheld

Role range: 2003-2003

Camp Justice

The execution is carried out at "Camp Justice," an Iraqi army base in Kazimain, a neighbourhood of northeast Baghdad

Role range: 2003-2003

Execution

The execution is carried out at "Camp Justice," an Iraqi army base in Kazimain, a neighbourhood of northeast Baghdad. On 30 December 2006 at approximately 6:05 am Baghdad time, Saddam Husseins sentence is carried out and he was executed by hanging

Role range: 2003-2003