As a result of the war, saddam hussein no longer held power in iraq.
a. true
b. false

The correct option is FALSE

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi politician, president of his country between 1979 and 2003. He was a prominent member of the revolutionary Baath Socialist Party and, later, of the Iraqi faction of the party and its regional organization-which supported Baathism, a mixture of nationalism and Arab socialism - Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup (later called the July 17 Revolution), which led the party to power in Iraq.

In 2003, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq to depose Saddam, in which US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair falsely accused him of possessing weapons of mass destruction and having links to them. Al Qaeda. The Baath Party was dissolved and elections were held. After his capture on December 13, 2003, Saddam's trial took place under the Interim Iraqi Government. On November 5, 2006, Saddam was sentenced by an Iraqi court for crimes against humanity related to the killing of 148 Iraqi Shiites in 1982, and sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed on December 30, 2006.