Seizing power after a 1971 military coup, he asserted his caretaker status following the presidency of Milton Obote.  
His relationship with Englishman Bob Astles provided some of the inspiration for a novel by Giles Foden.  Despite originally being a supporter of Israel, he later condoned a hijacking of an Air France jet by Palestinian militants which resulted in an Israeli military rescue operation.  Seizing power after a 1971 military coup, he asserted his caretaker status following the presidency of Milton Obote.  For 10 points, name this president and dictator who, in 1979, was overthrown by a Tanzanian military invasion following 8 years of rule marked by massive human rights abuses in his native Uganda.
His relationship with Englishman Bob Astles provided some of the inspiration for a novel by Giles Foden.  
{Idi Amin} Dada