This article uses newly available Iraqi records to examine Saddam Hussein's strategic view of Israel, from the time of his political ascendancy in the late 1970s to the Persian Gulf War of 1990–1991. It sheds light on a variety of issues: the sources and motives of Saddam's bitter ...
It is far from clear that America will be able to control the next leader of Iraq, even if he is not as diabolical as Saddam. Any leader of Iraq will look around him and see that Israel and Pakistan have nuclear weapons and that Iran may soon. Just as England and France opted to bu...
The article discusses the views of Baathist regime leader and president of Iraq Saddam Hussein on Israel and nuclear weapons during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Documents obtained after the 2003 invasion of Iraq indicate Saddam wanted to acquire nuclear weapons for a prospective war with ...
In August 1990, Iraq invaded the country of Kuwait to its southeast in a bidto gain more control over the lucrative oil supply of the Middle East. In response, the United States and the UN Security Council demanded that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein withdraw Iraqi troops from Kuwait, but Hus...
“The priorities for us are different,” a former government official said. “We are convinced that Israel is forever hostile, that the United States will never help the Palestinians, and that our economy is in deep trouble.” For the moment, King Hussein is trying to walk a tightrope. He...
Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that very room. As the 42-year-old Saddam coolly puffed on a cigar, names of the supposed plotters were read out...
On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel came back into being. David Ben-Gurion spoke to the People of the Diaspora, declaring Israel's independence to the world, telling them and the world that the dream of the Jews had at last come true, in the birth of a new nation, the rebirth of...
Saddam Hussein: Saddam Hussein al Takriti was the president of Iraq from July 16, 1979 through April 9, 2003. Following Iraq's defeat by the Coalition forces in the Second Gulf War, Hussein was succeeded by a Coalition government who ruled the country until June 2004. ...
On 25 July 2002, Doug Feith’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (OUSDP) issued a statement linking al-Qaeda to Saddam Hussein through a Dutch company named Vlemmo NV. This sort of allegation was typical of Feith, who had been asked in January of 2002 to come up wit...
Perspective: Tyrants Wait in Wings to Resume Reign of Terror; the 'Is He, Isn't He' Debate about Whether Saddam Hussein Has Survived Two Assassination Attempts Has a Familiar Ring to It. America Now Has Two Bogeymen It Is Trying to Find but the Hunt for Both Saddam and Osama Bin Laden...