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Then President Idi Amin is shown at a news conference at the Arab League Headquarters in Cairo in this March 8, 1977, photo. Amin, whose eight years as president of Uganda were characterized by bizarre and murderous behavior, died Saturday, August 16, 2003, according to a hospital official in Saudi Arabia. Amin was 80. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Horst Faas) === ===