SADDAM HUSSEIN : A BIOGRAPHY PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Shiva Balaghi | 204 pages | 30 Dec 2005 | ABC-CLIO | 9780313361883 | English | Westport, United States Saddam Hussein : A Biography PDF Book He is founding editor of the scholarly journal Israel Affairs, now in its sixteenth year, and founding general editor of a Routledge book series on Israeli History, Politics and Society. In his State of the Union address in January of , the U. Hussein was raised in the farming village of Tikrit by his widowed mother. Web Sites McCallester, Matthew. Inari Rautsi. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The days of glory were short lived and soon, owing to never ending conflicts and battles with the neighboring countries, and later with the West, the country was reduced to a barren land. Mills rated it liked it Sep 06, Such reports were denied by doctors. Saddam Hussein following his capture by U. Such large-scale social programs were unheard of in any other Middle Eastern country. A few years later, in , he ordered the execution of Tiled portrait of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, Iraq. Reports of Saddam sightings popped up occasionally, but proved to be false. In the war ended in a stalemate, with no side claiming a real victory. In an open letter to the American people, Hussein said that the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center were retribution for the death and destruction America has unleashed against foreigners, including the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Gulf War and economic sanctions against Iraq. Bush named Iraq as part of his so-called "Axis of Evil," along with Iran and North Korea, and claimed that the country was developing weapons of mass destruction and supporting terrorism. Table Of Contents. By April 9, when U. From there, he was moved to a U. Showing all 55 items. What Lenin was to Stalin, Stalin became to Hussein and Saddam took great care to model Stalin's policies as best practices in dealing with his own people. If you are Iraqi, you know who I am In particular, Saddam focused attention on the rural areas, where roughly two-thirds of the population lived. Once in control, Saddam surrounded himself with a tightly-knit group of family and friends who assumed high levels of responsibility within the government. On October 7, , Saddam and other members of the Ba-ath Party attempted to assassinate Iraq's then-president, Abd al-Karim Qasim, whose resistance to joining the nascent United Arab Republic and alliance with Iraq's communist party had put him at odds with the Ba'athists. Jamaal Bowman, D-N. In , after a military overthrow of Qassim's government, Saddam was allowed to return to Iraq. Bush, the 43rd President. Both pro- and anti-war nations felt the report supported their point of view. He was shot in the leg but managed to escape, first to Syria and then to Cairo, Egypt. In Nov. The Kurds are a nomadic people who are concentrated in areas of Turkey, Iran, and Iraq. Saddam Hussein : A Biography Writer Once he became President of Iraq, Saddam often ruled with force and a carefully cultivated image throughout the use of visual imagery and books. On July 22, , when an ailing Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr decided to step down as president, it came as no surprise that Saddam Hussein stepped into his shoes. These individuals, however, were not necessarily immune to Saddam's paranoia. Return to Book Page. Born to a peasant family near Tikrit, the teenage Saddam immersed himself in the anti-British, Arab nationalist ideology of the day. Because of these differences Saddam knew that the substance could be borrowed from Nasser, but the appearance would have to be molded along the lines of his own personality. Over the next eight years, both countries suffered almost irreparable damage, and the healthy economy that Saddam had created during the s was in ruins. Mohammed Aamir rated it liked it Sep 30, Images of Saddam were plastered throughout the country. Although he ruled with an iron fist, Saddam also was preoccupied with winning the devotion of the Iraqi people. Saying "Happy New Year! Violence, like ideology, was purely instrumental for Saddam. Nick Giorgio rated it really liked it Apr 14, Michel Aflaq, a founding father of the Party and its chief ideologue, reportedly took a personal interest in the young political exile and promoted him to the highest rank of Party membership, full member. On July 1 he faced his first legal hearing before an Iraqi Special Tribunal. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Though keenly aware of the need to collaborate with the military in overthrowing Aref, Hussein had no intention of sharing political power with them. The interview was broadcast worldwide, even in Iraq, which meant that the Iraqi people were given a rare glimpse of their reclusive leader who was rarely seen in person. Saddam's social programs benefited both rural and city dwellers. Those who were lucky enough to survive their early childhood, were to suffer throughout their lives from nutritional deficiencies and to be afflicted by numerous epidemic diseases such as malaria, bejel a non-venereal form of syphilis , hookworm, tuberculosis, and trachoma. They were engaged while Saddam was still in Cairo and got married shortly after his return to Iraq in early Saddam also funneled revenues into modernizing the country's agriculture industry. Hussein's borderline cooperation caused a diplomatic crisis at the UN, a divisive role he exulted in. In July of his two sons and political heirs, Uday and Qusay, were killed by U. The conservative followers of Islam the national religion of Iraq did not agree with many of Saddam's innovations, which they felt were directly opposed to Islamic law. This volume in Greenwood's American Popular Culture through History series recreates the many ways in which a new American culture took root during the Revolutionary period. The authority of the monarchy was restored by British bayonets. During a seven-year period between gaining independence and the outbreak of the Second World War in , Iraq was governed by no fewer than 12 cabinets. Saddam Hussein : A Biography Reviews Anti-Saddam sentiment only escalated, however, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, Bakr himself was elected in as a member of the National Command and a year later he became Secretary-General of the Iraqi Regional Command. On October 7, , Saddam and other members of the Ba-ath Party attempted to assassinate Iraq's then-president, Abd al-Karim Qasim, whose resistance to joining the nascent United Arab Republic and alliance with Iraq's communist party had put him at odds with the Ba'athists. His return was short-lived, however, since internal squabbling within the new Baa'th regime led to its downfall. He is founding editor of the scholarly journal Israel Affairs, now in its sixteenth year, and founding general editor of a Routledge book series on Israeli History, Politics and Society. Lecturers as well as students were often imprisoned for their opinions and forced to avoid taking provocative political stands. The Iran-Iraq War dragged on in a stalemate until , when both countries accepted a cease-fire that ended the fighting. Although the attacks were never linked to Saddam Hussein, Bush insisted that terrorists armed with Iraqi weapons could at any time target the United States. A troubled beginning The ex-president of Iraq had a troubled childhood. The campaign was known as Desert Storm. Not only did it lack paved roads, electricity, or running water, but the appalling health and sanitary conditions made physical survival a demanding task. On the one hand, the mantle of the pan-Arab cause offered the regime a potent instrument to assert its leadership role in the region. NOOK Book. During the meeting, a list of 68 names was read out loud, and each person on the list was promptly arrested and removed from the room. President at Last. The nationalists, for their part, considered the pact a submission to Western imperialism and a betrayal of the cause of pan-Arabism. Saddam managed to elude capture throughout the remainder of the year. Marines helped a small crowd of Iraqis gathered in Firdos Square to tear down a statue of Saddam Hussein. He was subsequently tried and executed by the Iraqi interim government for the killing of Iraqi Shi'ites in In his State of the Union address in January of , the U. He prevented Saddam from acquiring education, sending him instead to steal for him; the young boy was even reported to have spent some time in a juvenile detention center. Like the numerous risky decisions he was to take in subsequent years, this move was anything but impetuous; rather it was made after a careful consideration of the costs and benefits involved. Twists, turns, red herrings, the usual suspects: These books have it all In the s, Generation eXposure, emerged from the marriage of new technology and the nation's obsession with celebrity. This was a political union of Egypt and Syria, with Nasser as its President and Cairo as its capital. In August the Iraqi army overran neighbouring Kuwait. His sons, Uday and Qusay, were cornered and killed in Mosul on July 22, but it was not until December 13 that Saddam was finally captured. Saddam even faced resistance within his own party, and he made it a policy to weed out anyone he viewed as a threat. After nine months on the run, Hussein was captured in December by U.