Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for more than 20 years, controlling the Middle Eastern nation through fear, brutal and control, all-the-while crushing any who went against him. Yet, in 2006, his regime came crashing down, following a US-led invasion of the country, and in the early hours of December 30 2006, the man who once commanded an army stood beneath a hangman’s noose, waiting for the drop. Hussein was officially convicted of crimes against humanity relating to a massacre that