HUSSEIN’S RISE 侯赛因的崛起 Saddam Hussein was born to a poor farming family in Tikrit, Iraq. In 1955, he joined the Baath Party. This group wanted to build one big Arab nation. In 1959, Hussein tried to kill Iraq’s president. After failing, he fled to Egypt. 萨达姆·侯赛因出生于伊...
The once and future Defense secretary, at the time a private citizen, had been sent by President Ronald Reagan to Baghdad as a special envoy. Saddam Hussein, armed with a pistol on his hip, seemed "vigorous and confident," according to a now declassified State Department cable obtained by N...
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"I was in my twenties when U.S. forces entered Iraq, and I once dreamed that Iraq would turn into a prosperous country. However, the Americans did not fulfill their promises, and they did everything just for their own interests," said Hussein Kadhim, a 44-year-old Baghdad resident.■...
The truth of this claim is dubious: The New York Times notes that the State Department listed Iraq as a state sponsor of terrorism before the country was invaded in 2003. Hussein was known for killing his own people, gassing the Kurds and also waging war with Iran with support ...
Beginning in the 1970s, Saddam Hussein ruled the Republic of Iraq with a tight grip. His supporters maintained that through his many social and economic programs he effectively brought the country into the modern age. His many critics, however, claimed that Saddam was a ruthless dictator who ...
BAGHDAD --Tariq Aziz, the debonair Iraqi diplomat who made his name by staunchly defending Saddam Hussein to the world during three wars and was later sentenced to death as part of the regime that killed hundreds of thousands of its own people, has died in a hospital in southern Iraq, offi...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism....