Luis GarciaInformed Constituent
Question: Who is Saddam Hussein? Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr: On July 14, 1958, the western-friendly Hashemite Monarchy of Iraq was overthrown in a coup d'etat and was followed by the rule of the Arab nationalist Ba'athist party in Iraq. Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr became the president of Iraq and ...
Iraq’s National Security Agency says it has arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister during Saddam Hussein’s brutal crackdown on religious opposition.
He was based at the only Anglican church in Iraq, St George's, Baghdad, a former palace of Saddam Hussein's. Read MoreThomas Kingston, husband of Lady Gabriella and son-in-law to Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, has died aged 45 Kingston's sad passing comes as a ‘great shock',...
Who was the first president of Iraq? Who captured Saddam Hussein? Who killed Saddam Hussein? Who was the leader of Iraq during the Gulf War? Who was president when the Iraq War started? Who was involved in the Iraq War? Who caused the Iraq War?
That intervention ended in disaster, triggering a bloody insurgency and locking the US and its allies into a costly war, despite the successful toppling of Saddam Hussein. But reviving the words "coalition of the willing" will - if nothing else - remind Washington that London wa...
our collective memories of that disastrous conflict are not mistaken. Leaving aside the folly of trying to impose democracy on cultures that reject it, he never acknowledged (as other past backers of the war did) that while toppling Saddam was a good thing, it not only threw Iraq into chaos...
Lessons from history In 2003, the Americans toppled another Baathist dictator, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, and then fired as many as 30,000 members of the Baath party who were running the country. They also disbanded about half a million members of the Iraqi armed forces. This simultaneously...
She was a rock-solid supporter of the Western Alliance and was instrumental in the balanced elimination of intermediate-range missiles in Europe and the satisfactory end of the Cold War. She is generally credited with assisting President George Bush Sr. in determining that Saddam Hus...
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