Born in 1937 in the village of al-Awja near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein rose through the ranks of Iraq's Ba'ath Party before becoming the country's president in 1979. (File photo)Even after losing power and facing trial for crimes against humanity, Saddam Hussein remained defiant. Sitting inside a Baghdad courtroom in 2006, the former Iraqi president brushed aside jeers from the public gallery with a remark that has since become one of the most widely quoted lines from his trial: "A lion doesn't care if a monkey in a tree is laughing at him."The comment was delivered in the middle of a tense courtroom exchange during proceedings against the deposed Iraqi leader. As emotions flared, Hussein urged his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti to ignore those mocking them, insisting that a lion had no reason