Meanwhile he has concentrated ever more power and wealth in the hands of his own extended family and clan.
Before the invasion, the Iraqi state was dominated by Mr. Hussein's family and clan who belong to the country's Sunni minority.
Favouritism towards Mr Qaddafi's own family, clan and tribe also complicates things.
In the south, where democracy was generally a more fragile plant, family and clan loyalties held more sway than any sense of obligation to the state.
The key factors are cultural and generational divisions, the victim's refusal to toe a line and a reaction against a family or clan's self-proclaimed code or rules.
We feel that our moral principles should be universal, but we simultaneously feel that there is something special about our obligations to our own group, whether it's a family, clan or country.
The BBC's Paul Anderson in Islamabad says most women who fall prey to attacks designed to restore the slighted honour of a family, clan or tribe, accept their fate - believing that tribal or feudal leaders are too powerful to resist and that the police and judicial systems are stacked against them.
Separation is the new reality for the Gatti family, a clan of several generations that shared the same three-story home near the ocean on Staten Island until Sandy destroyed it.
Chedraui is a family business and family wealth: the clan owns 84% of the stock.
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Is it a family group like a clan group or a religious group?
Its interlocking cogs of power and influence -- geopolitical, regional, governmental, tribal, mineral, criminal, spiritual, clan and family -- are fiendishly complex.
And traditional sources of capital -- family, friends, clan -- are increasingly inadequate to fund the kind of expansion many Asian companies are hooked on.
The influential Qatar-based television channel, Al Jazeera, reported that a member of the Tlass family, a Sunni clan that has been close to the president, had defected.
Congress, the party that spearheaded India's independence, was converted by Indira Gandhi into a family vehicle for the Gandhi clan.
Yet she and her son shrug off any suggestion that her family, like the Kennedy clan, is somehow marked for tragedy.
President Karimov holds Uzbekistan in an iron grip, smothering any dissent, and this publicity for his family serves to underline their clan power.
Harvard-educated Anand, soon to turn 56, represents the third generation of the Mahindra clan to run the family enterprise that his paternal grandfather and great-uncle founded in 1945 as a steel trader and then an assembler of Willys Jeeps.
Its success has made the Walton family extremely wealthy -- money the clan has, in the time-honored fashion of millionaires throughout history, pumped into charity and culture.
K-J long ago dropped out of the main trade group, the Wine Institute, and Jackson grouses that if all the extended Gallo family ties are figured in, the clan accounts for most of U.S. wine production.
In an extreme example of the damage this can cause, members of the Ampatuan clan - the most powerful family in Maguindanao province - are alleged to have killed 57 people in 2009, purely because of their anger at a rival who dared to challenge their stranglehold on power.
But then there's family lore of how Xander (the Baldwin clan's nickname for him) always had that special charisma.
The Tierney clan has another cop in the family: Jimmy ( Colin Farrell) is married to their sister (Lake Bell).
Another Chicago family with widely known differences is the Ricketts clan.
Much of the movie is set on a private island controlled by the Vanger clan, a wealthy Swedish industrial family peopled with criminals, perverts, solitaries, exiles, dead Nazis, and a grieving old man, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), who has never got over the disappearance of his grandniece, forty years earlier.
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Kawakami is the 21st head of the Ban family, one of 53 that made up the Koka ninja clan.
It Runs in the Family is the first time the three generations of the Douglas clan have appeared in the same movie.
Members of Elizabeth's family appear regularly on commemorative coins issued to mark major Windsor clan milestones, such as the 21st birthday of her grandson, Prince Harry, last year.
She was older than their son, and though her family was well off, they couldn't compete socially with the Ko clan.
Krishna himself plays the hard-luck lead also named Krishna who loses his immediate family in a plane crash and becomes the odd man out in his extended clan.
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