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1]: Commanded by: Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno Col. James Hickey Lt. Col. Steve Russell: Target: Saddam Hussein (POW): Date: 13 December 2003; 21 years ago (): Executed by: 4th Infantry Division. 1st Brigade Combat Team; Task Force 121. C Squadron – Delta Force; ISA; Outcome: Operational success . Capture and arrest of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and two others [2; This article is ...
The deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was tried by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office.. The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam and his aides for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide [1] dating back to ...
Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was finally arrested on 5 April 1980 with his sister, Sayedah Bint al-Huda. [5] They had formed a powerful militant movement in opposition to Saddam Hussein's regime. [6] On 9 April 1980, Al-Sadr and his sister were killed after being severely tortured by their Baathist captors. [2] Signs of torture could be seen on the ...
14 December: Saddam Hussein's arrest in Iraq yields a document from Saddam directing Iraqi Baathist insurgents to beware of working with foreign jihadists. A US official commenting on the document stressed that while Saddam urged his followers to be cautious in their dealings with other Arab fighters, he did not order them to avoid contact or ...
January 17, 1977: French-led mercenaries attempted to overthrow Mathieu Kérékou and the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin government. March 4, 2013: Failed coup attempt by Colonel Pamphile Zomahoun against President Thomas Boni Yayi. September 26, 2024: 3 people arrested on charges of organising a coup. [22]
Soldiers on patrol during the American occupation of Ramadi, 16 August 2006. The occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) began on 20 March 2003, when the United States invaded with a military coalition to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and continued until 18 December 2011, when the final batch of American troops left the country.
In 1957, at the age of 20, Saddam Hussein joined the nascent Ba'ath Party, which was founded on a socialist form of Pan-Arabism.After participating in an unsuccessful 1959 assassination attempt on then Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim, Saddam became a fugitive, and eventually fled to Syria and then Egypt.
The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre [1] [2] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein [3] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.