soldiers not to kill him as he was captured following the dramatic conclusion to an eight-month manhunt.Hussein served as the fifth president of Iraq for a whopping 24 years, from 1979 until he was deposed by a US-led coalition in 2003.
When Iraqi capital Baghdad fell to US forces in April 2003, the dictator was nowhere to be found, sparking one of the most intense manhunts in history before he was finally captured months later.
Hussein was the most wanted man in the world for that eight-month period before finally, in December 2003, the Americans received a tip off that the tyrant was somewhere near his birthplace of Tikrit, 85 miles from Baghdad.
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