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In 1978 Saddam Hussein unleashed a renewed campaign of repression against the party, including the execution of large numbers of party members. In 1979, the party broke ties with the Iraqi government. In 1993, the Kurdish branch of the party was transformed into a semi-autonomous party, the Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq.
Saddam Hussein is one of the recipients of the Key to the City. [263] [266] In 1980, Saddam Hussein was awarded a key to the city of Detroit after he donated almost half a million dollars to a church in the city. [267] The Ba'ath government led by Saddam Hussein successfully turned Iraq into a leading hub for healthcare and education. [268]
Saddam Hussein praying, 1976. During the Iran–Iraq War, Saddam emphasized his Prophetic descent and used his sharifian descent to draw on a classical form of religious legitimacy. [13] Saddam supported the Islamist uprising in Syria from 1980 to 1982 and supplied the insurgent Muslim Brotherhood with a steady flow of arms and supplies. [14]
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.
At one point the party attacked the residence of Saddam Hussein. [7] The Iraqi Communist Party–Central Command had an organization, Jihaz as-Siddami ('Strike Force'), led by party Central Committee member Saleh Rida al-Askari, in charge of party security. [2]
Saddamism was officially supported by Saddam's government and promoted by the Iraqi daily newspaper Babil owned by Saddam's son Uday Hussein. [97] Saddam and his ideologists sought to fuse a pseudo-historical connection between ancient Babylonian and Assyrian civilization in Iraq with Arab nationalism by claiming that the ancient Babylonians ...
The 1991 Iraqi uprisings were ethnic and religious uprisings against Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime in Iraq that were led by Shia Arabs and Kurds.The uprisings lasted from March to April 1991 after a ceasefire following the end of the Gulf War.
This conflicted with Saddam Hussein's strict control of the Iraqi military, but over the course of the war some flexibility did emerge. [19] The Iraqis considered ground attack to be the most important and put their best pilots into their French Mirage F-1s rather than Soviet air-superiority fighters and interceptors such as the MiG-25 and MiG-29 .