Articles tagged with: Saddam
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Wednesday, 31 Oct, 2012
It has been almost six years since the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was swiftly sentenced to death after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity. But the history of Saddam’s relationship with the West remains a bit of a mystery. In this entry, we are going to look at some early Western assessments of Saddam.
Saddam first caught the attention of the West on 7 October 1959, when he took part in a brazen assassination attempt on the Iraqi dictator Abdel Karim Qasim. The attack ended ...
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Tuesday, 26 Jun, 2012
Arab politics has been dominated by personalities that are, in some ways, larger-than-life. Examples can be found outside the Gulf in leaders like Gamal Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Hafez Al-Assad, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qadhafi. Outside of Egypt and Libya, Iraq and pre-uprising Syria, however, were members of a peculiar sub-species of dictatorship: the one-party state.
Although Iraq under the Ba’ath was dominated in so many ways by Saddam Hussein, it was also the exemplar of the one-party...
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Friday, 27 Jan, 2012
William B. Quandt has been a prominent voice in American foreign policy in the Middle East for over 30 years. Serving in the National Security Council under the Richard Nixon a...
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William B. Quandt has been a prominent voice in American foreign policy in the Middle East for over 30 years. Serving in the National Security Council under the Richard Nixon a...
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Saturday, 21 Aug, 2010
This period of turmoil was brought to an end in 1968 in a bloodless coup led by General Ahmad Hasan Al-Bakr and his coterie of Ba'athist supporters. Bakr appointed himsel...
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