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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 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.
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 so ...

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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 Minister ...
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.
"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 the ...

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 in ...
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 war ...
Harrison's journey from England with his wife Patti, background, is to ... signaled his determination to deter any repeat of Saddam Hussein's ...
... were reborn after the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein when residents ... seen in the background in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 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 ...
... grown up under Saddam Hussein, been displaced multiple times during the ... for pilgrims of all backgrounds — from Christian leaders to American soldiers ...
... the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein's Iraq in a lengthy eight-year war ... As usual, history provides important insights as well as background.
Saddam Hussein sits in court during the continuation of his 'Anfal' genocide trial in ... I began with some background on myself, and my book.
... of course how few threatening weapons Saddam Hussein actually had. ... rank, branches of service and family backgrounds and home life.
... that 93 percent of Republicans(!) support expanded background checks. ... When you get there, say hi to Saddam Hussein, Wayne LaPierre, ...
We have no friends but the mountains: a background to Kurdish ..... Saddam Hussein began an onslaught against the Kurdish people that ...

He was heard to yell: "Do you know Saddam Hussein? ... heard sobbing in the background as her friends told the operator what had happened.
... both before and during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. ... years, Iraqis of all backgrounds must not squander the opportunities to move ...
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.
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.
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.
In the background is former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. ... two years after the 2003 U.S. invasion toppled Saddam Hussein.
And, on a grim personal note, the two leaders, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, were then brutally murdered, Hussein by hanging and ...
Putin: North Korea should learn from fall of Saddam Hussein .... I admire your business background and have started my own business,” he ...
... he stars in his father's production of Saddam Hussein: The Musical. ... in street casting and has identified actors from diverse backgrounds, ...
Deirdre Egan's 'eclectic' background makes her an asset to ... were grounded in the wake of Saddam Hussein's ordered invasion of Kuwait.
... the hardships the Iraqi people had to face under Saddam Hussein's ... She said veterans from all backgrounds find unity in having served, ...
... 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 the ...
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of ... Identify the photo with background information such as who, what, ...
... one of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad as his armed forces collapsed in 2003, ... to play a recording explaining the background of the memorial.
... be in power during the era of high oil prices," she says, explaining the background. ... "Do you remember what they did to Saddam Hussein?
... War II, and it exists sort of in the background of our consciousness. ..... what happened to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, both of ...
... come, of course, from veterans of Saddam Hussein's regime; the NSA and ... psychologists, and background checks, and the NSA trained the ...
... it promised to treat them as equal partners in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. ... Iraqi and Syrian refugees of all faiths and ethnic backgrounds.
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 the ...
... the CIA sent to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking to ... with Rove, I had typed, was on “double super-secret background.”.
... 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.
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.
It is important to point out that the popular protest movement emerged against a background of a deep political, economic, and social crisis.
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.
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.
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.
Everything was a Zionist conspiracy or how much he hates the West and worships Saddam Hussein. He told me how Hanadi blew herself up.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Withering post-operation reports appeared in The New York Times, Reuters, and elsewhere; on background, military officials criticized the raid and even Trump himself.
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.
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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