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Saddam, the son of peasants, was born in a village near the city of TikrÄ«t in northern Iraq. The area was one of the poorest in the country, and Saddam himself grew up in poverty. His father died before he was born, and he went at an early age to live with an uncle in Baghdad.
Baghdadi was born as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri, in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq, to a lower-middle class Sunni family. His tribe claimed to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been the leader of the jihadist militant organisation of ISIS. As a youth Baghdadi was a meticulous observer of religious law and could recite the Koran from cover to cover.