Saddam and his family in Iraq
Introduction
Iraqi politician. Born in a peasant family, he grew up at his uncle Jairalah Tulfah, from which he acquired the military doctrine, since this was an army officer who was expelled from the armed forces for conspiracy for the Nazi. Therefore, Hussein grew up in an environment subjugated by an Arab nationalism.
Developing
In 1957 he joined the Arab Socialist Party Baaz. Two years later, he participated in an attack on the life of Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qasim, but failed and wounded fled to Syria disguised as a woman, where he met President Gamal Abdel Kassel in 1962. On his return in his country in 1963, he continued with his political activity, since his influence within the Baaz party did not stop growing, going from rank quickly to becoming one of the attached secretaries.
In 1968 he took part in the Baasista coup d’etat headed by General Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr. Finally, in 1979, I reached the presidency, being the successor of General Hassan acquiring a secular, socialist and nationalist state, and thus Husein managed to be one of the most powerful men in the Arab world.
In the period from 1980 to 1988, after a series of border incidents with Iran caused by the dispute of the Petrolera region of the Arab, Iraq declared the war against Iran. In this war he receives military aid from the United States, in addition to economic support from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. After eight years of a bloody conflict, Iran accepted the United Nations Armistice and Iraq declared the winner. After the war, Sadam still had to face his country with the revolts Chií and Kurda, who did not hesitate to repress.
In 1990 Saddam Hussein, after requesting in vain an increase in the price of oil that would have reported the necessary currencies to calm the difficult economic situation, Kuwait invaded claiming old rights over its territory, which caused a crisis that led to the so -called war of the war of the war of thePersian Gulf, in which international forces forces forced the Iraqi army to retire, and the United Nations imposed a total boycott that seriously affected the Iraqi economy and the living conditions of the people.
In September 1996, the United States bombed Iraq again to punish Saddam for having crossed the exclusion line set in 1991 in parallel 36 to attack the population Kurdish. In 1997 the UN Commission was in charge of supervising Iraq’s disarma.
After the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, on September 11, 2001, the president of the United States, George Bush included Iraq, Iran and North Korea in the so -called evil axis. Where two years later, an alliance formed by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries attacked Iraq, starting what was known as Iraq invasion.
On March 20, 2003, allied troops began the first attacks on Iraq with an initial bombardment about Baghdad. On April 8, a B-1 bomber launched four bunkers drilling bombs against a building in the Iraqi capital, where Sadam Husein was supposed to be gathered with other hierarchs of the regime, and then disappeared.
The former Iraqi president Sadam Husein was captured on December 14, 2003 by US troops in his hometown of Tikrit, after his capture was sentenced to death in the gallows, an event that occurred on December 30, 2006, he could not avoid theExecution of death sentence for their crimes against humanity.
conclusion
In conclusion, with the aforementioned I can say that the leader Hussein was a ruthless dictator with his enemies throughout his government. This eliminated the entire opposition with methods such as the use of toxic gas against civil populations. Saddam Hussein managed to be one of the most powerful men in the Arab world with a secular, socialist and nationalist state. Hussein firmly ruled the Iraqis for 24 years, committing in this process crimes against humanity, which led him to be sentenced to death because his successive policy and wars.
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