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SADDAM HUSSEIN

SADDAM HUSSEIN. General Information Youth Rise in Ba’ath Part Consolidation of Power Foreign Affairs Invasion of Iraq Pursuit and Capture. GENERAL INFORMATION. born April 28 , 1937 President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003 . espoused secular pan-Arabism , economic

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SADDAM HUSSEIN

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  1. SADDAM HUSSEIN

  2. General Information • Youth • Rise in Ba’ath Part • Consolidation of Power • Foreign Affairs • Invasion of Iraq • Pursuit and Capture

  3. GENERAL INFORMATION • born April 28, 1937 • President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. • espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic • modernization, and socialism

  4. GENERAL INFORMATION • Iraq's economy grew at a rapid pace in the 1970s • As president, he developed a pervasive personality cult • Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) • Captured by U.S. forces on December 13, 2003

  5. YOUTH • Was born in the village of Al-Awja in Tikrit • "Saddam," which in Arabic means "one who confronts • He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid, who died or disappeared five months before Saddam was born. • Saddam's twelve-year-old brother died of cancer

  6. YOUTH • His mother attempted both to abort Saddam and kill herself and refused to care for her new child when he was born • Very depressive childhood • Learned many things from his uncle. He was ambitious. • he attended a nationalistic secondary school in Baghdad • at age 20, Saddam joined the revolutionary pan-ArabBa'ath Party, of which his uncle was a supporter

  7. Rise in the Ba'ath party • Ba'athists opposed the new government, and in 1959, Saddam was involved in the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Qassim • Saddam was shot in the leg, but managed to flee to Syria, • Saddam returned to Iraq, but was imprisoned in 1964 • He escaped from jail in 1967 and became one of the leading members of the party

  8. Rise in the Ba'ath party • Saddam never forgot the tensions within the first Ba'athist government • He was ambitious • In July1968 a second coup brought the Ba'athists back to power under General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr a Tikriti and a relative of Saddam

  9. Consolidation of power • In 1976 Saddam was appointed a general in the Iraqi armed forces

  10. Consolidation of Power • Saddam soon gained a powerful circle of support within the party through his ambition. • President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr became increasingly unable to execute the duties • Saddam began to take an increasingly prominent role as the face of the Iraqi government, both internally and externally • 1970s, Saddam had emerged as the undisputed de facto leader of Iraq.

  11. Foreign affairs • Communication barriers • Iraq signed an aid pact with the Soviet Union in 1972 • Western orientation from then until the Persian Gulf War in 1991 • Saddam initiated Iraq's nuclear enrichment project in the 1980s, with French assistance

  12. Foreign Affairs • first Iraqi nuclear reactor was named by the French Osiraq • Destroyed by an Israeli air strike shortly before it became capable of producing weapons

  13. 2003 invasion of Iraq • Bush claimed, "The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade." • "Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror," said Bush • The Iraqi government and military collapsed within three weeks of the beginning of the U.S.-led 2003 invasion of Iraq on March 20 • When Baghdad fell to the Coalition on April 9, Saddam was nowhere to be found.

  14. Pursuit and capture • His sons and political heirs, Uday and Qusay, were killed in July 2003 in an engagement with U.S. forces after a tip-off from an Iraqi informant • Paul Bremer, formally announced the capture of Saddam by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!" He was captured at approximately 8:30 PM Iraqi time on December 13, in an underground "spider hole" at a farmhouse in ad-Dawr near his home town Tikri

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