THE RISE AND FALL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN: A CHRONOLOGYPhilip Elam for the Dayton Daily News
RISE AND FALL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN; During his long and bloody dictatorship, Saddam led Iraq into a series of wars - all of which he lost. He used torture, execution and extraordinarily cruel interrogation methods to stay in power. His critics called him the "Butcher of Baghdad" and said ...
theUnited States invaded Afghanistan. Citing alleged connections to al-Qaeda and plans to construct weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. While the U.S. quickly toppled the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, Iraq soon descended into religious strife between the Shia and Sunni...
Patrick Cockburn Reports on an Unexpected Consequence of the Overthrow of Saddam Hussein By Cockburn, Patrick Newspaper article from The Independent (London, England) Article details Beginning of article In northern Iraq, stretching in a crescent from Iran to Syria, is one the strangest states ...
No wonder the opponents of Saddam Hussein, Assad and Qaddafi were from all political and social constituents. Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi despite being a Shiite succeeded in getting the support of Sunni, Shiites and Kurds in Iraq because he refused to be influenced by sectarianism. ...
He said the original law was influenced by “communists and Baathists,” the latter in reference to the secular pan-Arab nationalist party that ruled the country with an iron fist from 1968 until its rule under Saddam Hussein was toppled in the 2003 ...
government toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, it thought regime change would help bring democracy to Iraq and then to the rest of the region. The Bush administration thought of politics as the relationship between individuals and the state, and so it failed to recognize that people in the Middle...
everything, asinthecaseof HITLERandSaddam HUSSEIN, could the situation be described as a dictatorship. legco.gov.hk legco.gov.hk 便一如希特勒、薩達姆等人般,只由一個人來主宰一切的才算是獨裁,而他認為這 顯然不是中國的情況。 legco.gov.hk ...
“confront the new hazards of biological and chemical weapons,” adding that Saddam Hussein specifically was “developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them.” However, there was no intelligence to back up these claims, especially after the failed attempts by ...
But when the first Bush administration rejected Soviet appeals not to launch an attack against Saddam Hussein after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the White House worked hard to pay proper heed to Gorbachev and not "rub his nose in it," as former Secretary of State James Baker put it. As a result,...