Idi Amin, the brutal Ugandan dictator in power during the Entebbe hostage crisis, died Saturday. Amin, who was believed to be about 78, died of organ failure in Saudi Arabia, the only country to give him permanent sanctuary after his eight-year reign of terror in Uganda.
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