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background of Saddam Hussein
Having been rewritten by official biographers, Saddam's official biography is hazy. It is known that he is born in the small village of Al Awja and that he leaves home at an early age. He arrives in Baghdad at age 10 to seek an education and to live with his Uncle Khayrallah, an Iraqi nationalist who had served time in for anti-British activities.
During the 1950s and 1960s the Ba'ath Party is a small, underground Arab nationalist group that supports the creation of a pan-Arab state -- a popular idea to Middle East Arabs. At age 20, Saddam Hussein joins the party.
Saddam is selected by the Ba'ath Party to be part of seven-man hit squad to assassinate Iraqi leader Gen. Abdel Karim Kassem. The plot fails. Although Saddam later portrays himself as the leader of the team, in reality he has a small role. He is slightly wounded in the incident and escapes the next morning in a daring swim across the Tigris River. Saddam flees to Cairo and becomes caught up in Egypt's own revolution under the charismatic Gamel Abdel Nasser, whose pan-Arabism Saddam finds appealing. Saddam also becomes a leader of the Ba'ath Party's student cell in Cairo and reportedly regularly visits the U.S. embassy to meet with CIA agents interested in sparking Gen. Kassem's overthrow.
In February, Kassem is assassinated by members of the Ba'ath Party and the CIA helps the Ba'athists by providing lists of suspected communists for the party's hit squads, who kill an estimated 800 people. Saddam returns home and rejoins the party as an interrogator, torturer and killer. Nine months later, the army overthrows the Ba'ath Party and Saddam is jailed. He is said to have studied the political tactics of Hitler and Stalin while in prison.
...Having been rewritten by official biographers, Saddam's official biography is hazy. It is known that he is born in the small village of Al Awja and that he leaves home at an early age. He arrives in Baghdad at age 10 to seek an education and to live with his Uncle Khayrallah, an Iraqi nationalist who had served time in for anti-British activities.
During the 1950s and 1960s the Ba'ath Party is a small, underground Arab nationalist group that supports the creation of a pan-Arab state -- a popular idea to Middle East Arabs. At age 20, Saddam Hussein joins the party.
Saddam is selected by the Ba'ath Party to be part of seven-man hit squad to assassinate Iraqi leader Gen. Abdel Karim Kassem. The plot fails. Although Saddam later portrays himself as the leader of the team, in reality he has a small role. He is slightly wounded in the incident and escapes the next morning in a daring swim across the Tigris River. Saddam flees to Cairo and becomes caught up in Egypt's own revolution under the charismatic Gamel Abdel Nasser, whose pan-Arabism Saddam finds appealing. Saddam also becomes a leader of the Ba'ath Party's student cell in Cairo and reportedly regularly visits the U.S. embassy to meet with CIA agents interested in sparking Gen. Kassem's overthrow.
In February, Kassem is assassinated by members of the Ba'ath Party and the CIA helps the Ba'athists by providing lists of suspected communists for the party's hit squads, who kill an estimated 800 people. Saddam returns home and rejoins the party as an interrogator, torturer and killer. Nine months later, the army overthrows the Ba'ath Party and Saddam is jailed. He is said to have studied the political tactics of Hitler and Stalin while in prison.
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The Providence Journal
December 15, 2017
The next time NBC News evinced any interest in the story, I suggested, I'd be happy to furnish some background information or put NBC in touch with the ... had once (falsely) reported, in defiance of White House entreaties, that Saddam Hussein was behind the series of post-9/11 anthrax attacks in America.
The Guardian
December 15, 2017
My parents are from the Kurdish region of Iraq. In the 80s my dad was a freedom fighter, part of the armed resistance, fighting Saddam Hussein's regime. ... I've instantly joined this new identity but I don't have the background or know the struggle – I feel like an impostor. Even things like hair – I'm learning soÃÂ ...
The Providence Journal
December 9, 2017
He saw the fate of Saddam [Hussein] and [Muammar] Gaddafi — why would he give up his nuclear weapons? ... Young and inexperienced — he was 27 when he succeeded his father and had no military background — the third Kim has aggressively pursued nuclear weapons as a way to fend off outsideÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 9, 2017
Iraq's prime minister declared victory Saturday over Islamic State, the extremist group that imposed its brutal reign on millions, saying government forces have driven the militants from their last footholds in the country after three years of grueling combat. In a televised address to the nation, Prime MinisterÃÂ ...
Kurdistan24
December 5, 2017
US forces took over the K-1 military base following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003. It was abandoned in 2014 by the Americans. The Iraqi army ... It is a multi-ethnic province with a diverse religious background made up of Kurds, Turkmen, Arabs, and Christians. Kurds account for the majority of the population.
W Magazine
December 3, 2017
"I don't know what it is about the world now—people just seem to have just gotten older in their jobs," Tina Brown said casually earlier this week, sounding nonplussed that one of the most prominent reactions to her new tell-all book, The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992, has been that she took over theÃÂ ...
Farmington Daily Times
November 27, 2017
There is a background noise of regional “hybrid war” intruding on the market price of World and West Texas Intermediate oil. Most analysts both commercial ... In the U.S. invasion of Iraq and elimination of Saddam Hussein, the Saudi – Sunni bloc lost a buffer against Iran. U.S. foreign policy is anchored inÃÂ ...
IFP News
November 25, 2017
Moreover, France believes its special relationship with the Arab world and the country's colonial background makes it all the more necessary for Paris to ... In other words, the French government, as one of the key suppliers of weapons to former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein during the Iraqi imposed warÃÂ ...
Meriden Record-Journal
October 28, 2017
Harrison's journey from England with his wife Patti, background, is to ... signaled his determination to deter any repeat of Saddam Hussein's ...
Santa Maria Times
October 26, 2017
... were reborn after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein when residents ... seen in the background in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017.
The Daily Northwestern
October 26, 2017
... said he channels a lot of his background and his views on the Gulf War in ... “I knew Saddam (Hussein) was going to be killed, and the only ...
Kurdistan24
October 25, 2017
... grown up under Saddam Hussein, been displaced multiple times during the ... for pilgrims of all backgrounds — from Christian leaders to American soldiers ...
The Northwest Florida Daily News
October 19, 2017
... the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein's Iraq in a lengthy eight-year war ... As usual, history provides important insights as well as background.
Newsweek
October 15, 2017
Saddam Hussein sits in court during the continuation of his 'Anfal' genocide trial in ... I began with some background on myself, and my book.
GazetteNET
October 13, 2017
... of course how few threatening weapons Saddam Hussein actually had. ... rank, branches of service and family backgrounds and home life.
Tucson Weekly
October 12, 2017
... that 93 percent of Republicans(!) support expanded background checks. ... When you get there, say hi to Saddam Hussein, Wayne LaPierre, ...
Lima Charlie News
October 12, 2017
We have no friends but the mountains: a background to Kurdish ..... Saddam Hussein began an onslaught against the Kurdish people that ...
The Sun
October 12, 2017
He was heard to yell: "Do you know Saddam Hussein? ... heard sobbing in the background as her friends told the operator what had happened.
Conservative Home
October 11, 2017
... both before and during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. ... years, Iraqis of all backgrounds must not squander the opportunities to move ...
GazetteNET
October 10, 2017
Similarly, there has been a call to extend background checks for the purchase of ... a Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong or a Saddam Hussein.
Harvard Crimson
October 4, 2017
No matter our background, we all experienced the same horrified reaction Monday ... by a majority of Americans—that enacts universal background checks, stopping the .... yeah, the same way Saddam Hussein got it done.
ABC News
September 25, 2017
For Iraq's Kurds, the memories are still fresh of Saddam Hussein gassing their countrymen at Halabja in 1988, killing as many as 5,000 people.
Stars and Stripes
December 31, 1999
In the background is former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. ... two years after the 2003 U.S. invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.
Common Dreams
September 6, 2017
And, on a grim personal note, the two leaders, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, were then brutally murdered, Hussein by hanging andÃÂ ...
WPXI Pittsburgh
September 5, 2017
Putin: North Korea should learn from fall of Saddam Hussein .... I admire your business background and have started my own business,” heÃÂ ...
The Australian
August 30, 2017
... he stars in his father's production of Saddam Hussein: The Musical. ... in street casting and has identified actors from diverse backgrounds,ÃÂ ...
Iowa Now
August 29, 2017
Deirdre Egan's 'eclectic' background makes her an asset to ... were grounded in the wake of Saddam Hussein's ordered invasion of Kuwait.
Seacoastonline.com
August 25, 2017
... the hardships the Iraqi people had to face under Saddam Hussein's ... She said veterans from all backgrounds find unity in having served,ÃÂ ...
Myanmar Times
August 23, 2017
... to avoid the mistake made by Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, ... Against this background, efforts to bring the Kim regime back to theÃÂ ...
Alton Telegraph
August 23, 2017
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of ... Identify the photo with background information such as who, what,ÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
August 21, 2017
... one of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad as his armed forces collapsed in 2003, ... to play a recording explaining the background of the memorial.
BBC News
August 11, 2017
... be in power during the era of high oil prices," she says, explaining the background. ... "Do you remember what they did to Saddam Hussein?
NPR
December 31, 1999
... War II, and it exists sort of in the background of our consciousness. ..... what happened to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, both ofÃÂ ...
The Intercept
December 31, 1999
... come, of course, from veterans of Saddam Hussein's regime; the NSA and ... psychologists, and background checks, and the NSA trained theÃÂ ...
PRI
December 31, 1999
... it promised to treat them as equal partners in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. ... Iraqi and Syrian refugees of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds.
Deseret News
December 31, 1999
U.S. landing crafts ride at anchor in the background. .... cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling theÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
... the CIA sent to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking to ... with Rove, I had typed, was on “double super-secret background.”.
The Telegraph (blog)
December 31, 1999
... Lenin, Adolf Hitler or Saddam Hussein, we have many statues and ... person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion.
The Australian
March 24, 2017
Many come from middle-class or even upper-class backgrounds, drawn to a radical and false utopian vision that purports to be based upon the Koran.
People's World
March 24, 2017
It is important to point out that the popular protest movement emerged against a background of a deep political, economic, and social crisis.
Clydebank Post
March 24, 2017
It is not surprising, given the 27-year-old's background as one of the Glasgow Girls, a group of high-school students who, with the support of the wider Drumchapel community, forced the Home Office to stop dawn raids on asylum seekers back in 2002.
New Statesman
March 22, 2017
As he stood on the ruins of a former palace that had belonged to one of Saddam Hussein's brothers, he had a view of all of Mosul.
The All State
March 22, 2017
Green is a former Army flight surgeon who interviewed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after his capture in 2003. Green served 20 ... If nominated, Green will need to be confirmed by the Senate after proper hearings, interviews and background checks.
JerusalemOnline
March 22, 2017
Everything was a Zionist conspiracy or how much he hates the West and worships Saddam Hussein. He told me how Hanadi blew herself up.
World Politics Review
March 21, 2017
Of its previous 23 directors since former President Harry S. Truman founded the CIA in 1947, only five have had markedly political backgrounds. The first career politician, George H.W. Bush, assumed the CIA directorship in 1976 after previously serving ...
WKRN.com
March 20, 2017
There is no reason that he won't pass a background check." While serving in Iraq, Sen. Green, who is also a physician, was one of the first to examine Saddam Hussein after the former Iraqi leader's capture. In addition to Sen. Green, who has extensive ...
Metro
March 19, 2017
It's been over a decade since Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, was executed but Saddam of India believes he is preventing him from getting a job.
The New York Review of Books
March 18, 2017
Withering post-operation reports appeared in The New York Times, Reuters, and elsewhere; on background, military officials criticized the raid and even Trump himself.
Politico
March 18, 2017
A source close to Green said that he's currently filling out intensive background checks that the White House personnel office and FBI will review.
Al-Monitor
March 16, 2017
That was when payments flowed to the Gaza Strip and West Bank from then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who wanted to encourage the insurrection against Israel.
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