Tikrit city is a wide city and the center of Salahuddin province away from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, 175 km to the north, which is the birthplace of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq for 35 years with an iron fist.

Most of the city's residents were and still loyal to the former leader, who was born in Ouja village and around it and Tikrit turned to a haven amid a vast desert.

The city is one of the largest complexes of the presidential palaces as most of its parts had been rebuild by Saddam Hussein after the bombing of U.S. aircraft in the Gulf War .

After 2003 , Jabara told “Shafaq News " that "the people are annoyed after a lot of the people of Tikrit had been working in the responsibility service what caused the lack of figures representing the city in the successive governments ."

Observers say that the majority of the population in Tikrit does not believe in one way or another in the political process emerged by the new invasion of Baghdad and removing Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

After 11 years, Tikrit specifically looks exhausted despite the presence of some aspects of the reconstruction but security caused heavy economic losses in the city.

Ahmed al-Tikriti , 23 years old young man, a student at the University of Tikrit told “Shafaq News " that " Tikrit is marginalized and we feel injustice in everything here ."

The old tribal leader of Saddam’s tribe , Hassan al- Neda finds that Saddam's tribe " Bejat " that inhabit Awja town in Tikrit was not distinguishable from the others and that there are hundreds of poor people were living in Ouja .

He says to “Shafaq News” that “Saddam built houses for them as in any city in Iraq and did not distinguish one city from the other”.

But Neda believes that “the clan in general and the residents of Ouja now are marginalized and seizure affects all their belongings ."