BORN in 1937 and inducted into the Ba'th party in the early 1960s, Saddam Hussein rose quickly through the ranks to become the party's chief of security, and then its leader, subordinating the entire party to the will of the small clan from his native Tikrit village. Saddam held Josef Stalin as his mentor, and in 1968, the year of the Ba'thist takeover in Iraq, he carried out ferocious 'purges'. Non-Ba'thists were removed from state institutions, thousands were killed for alleged 'plots'. The following year he ordered mass hangings of 'spies'.
바카라 웹사이트In 1979, Saddam became president and Iraq was transformed into a military giant and a totalitarian dictatorship. In the bloodiest purge ever, hundreds of former aides in the party and military were executed. Iraq accumulated vast stores of chemical and biological weapons.바카라 웹사이트
Saddam's so-called paranoid mentality is born of the harsh milieu in which he emerged and the peculiar characteristics of a generation of West Asian leaders who believe Arab nationalism must triumph at any human cost. Saddam's biographers, Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, claim the one lesson Saddam lives by is that in Iraq there is no substitute for physical force.
바카라 웹사이트In 1990, they say, he passed a law allowing men to kill 'misbehaving' female relatives at will. Early this year, he executed his sons-in-law—Hussein and Saddam Kamel—who dared question his authority.
