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3 days ago · Saddamism was officially supported by Saddam Hussein's government and promoted by the Iraqi daily newspaper Babil, which was owned by Saddam's son Uday Hussein. [84] Saddam Hussein (left) talking with Michel Aflaq in 1979. Saddam Hussein and his ideologists sought to fuse a connection between the ancient Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations in ...
3 days ago · Hussein installed a portrait of himself and Nebuchadnezzar at the entrance to the ruins and inscribed his name on many of the bricks, in imitation of Nebuchadnezzar. One frequent inscription reads: "This was built by Saddam Hussein , son of Nebuchadnezzar, to glorify Iraq".
4 days ago · Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in a six-hour firefight when U.S. forces surrounded and then stormed a palatial villa in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, a senior American ...
2 days ago · Iraq - Dictatorship, Invasion, Sanctions: From the early 1970s Saddam was widely recognized as the power behind President al-Bakr, who after 1977 was little more than a figurehead. Saddam reached this position through his leadership of the internal security apparatus, a post that most senior Baʿathist figures had been too squeamish to fill. Saddam, however, had drawn hard lessons from the ...
1 day ago · Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi (more) The Houthi movement calls itself Anṣār Allāh (“Defenders of God”). The more popular term, Houthi, refers to its founding figure, a politician and Zaydī activist named Hussein Badr al-Din al-Houthi. The origins of the movement are rooted in Zaydī society, which in 893 ce became established in ...
5 days ago · Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, (born 11 January 626, Medina, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died October 10, 680, Karbalāʾ, Iraq), hero in Shiʿi Islam, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fāṭima and son-in-law ʿAlī (the first Imam of the Shi'a and the fourth of the Sunni Rashidun caliphs). ^ abcdefg Veccia Vaglieri 1971.
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5 days ago · The 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq was based on the allegation that the country’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction. In his new book, author Steve Coll pored over hundreds of audio tapes and transcripts, many previously unreleased, of internal meetings to uncover Hussein’s view on his tumultuous relationship with the ...
