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In 1990 Muhamed Ali traveled to Iraq, where 15 Americans were being held hostage by Saddam Hussein in order to help secure their release. In August of the same year, shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait, Saddam took thousands of foreigners hostage. After the United Nations passed a resolution demanding that Iraq pull out of Kuwait, Saddam still had 15 American men, using them as human shields by holding them in buildings America was likely to bomb. Defying the odds and the U.S. government, Ali a beloved and respected Muslim figure around the world decided to visit Iraq and negotiate the release of the hostages directly with Saddam Hussein. Ali’s meeting with Saddam on Nov. 29, 1990, was open to the media. Ali sat patiently while Saddam praised himself for treating the hostages so well. Once he sensed an opening, Ali promised Saddam that he’d bring America “an honest account” of Iraq. I’m not going to let Muhammad Ali return to the US,” Saddam replied, “without having a number of the American citizens accompanying him.” Ali got all 15. Once released, the men were filmed going into Ali’s modest hotel room, where an exhausted Ali sat on the foot of his bed. One by one, the former hostages thanked him.

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In 1996, Ed Bradley interviewed Muhammad Ali for "60 Minutes." In a classic moment from the interview, Ali, with the help of his wife, Lonnie Ali, pulls a fast one on Bradley.

"A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali

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