Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq -- the chief opponents of President Saddam Hussein -- claim to have wounded the leader's oldest son, Udai, in a Baghdad murder attempt and nearly assassinated the country's defense minister. Iranian radio reports said both assassination attempts occurred in the last 48 hours. TIME Istanbul contributor James Wilde says the Kurdish attacks are also disturbing neighboring Turkey, a strong U.S. ally already preoccupied by a series of domestic riots this week...
...officials -- and quite a few others -- knew of plans for a coup last weekend against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Unfortunately, Saddam seems to have been among the cogniscenti. Led by Wafiq Samaraii, who headed Iraqi intelligence during the Gulf War but later lost his post in a purge, the plot was to be carried out by major sections of the Iraqi military, with simultaneous attacks mounted in both northern and southern Iraq. First reported by The New York Times this morning, the coup would have united Iraq's main opposition group with army contingents and Kurd and Shiite forces throughout...
...Saddam Hussein when he's not affecting us at all?," asked Kelly...
Trainor and Gordon said their book focuses on issues that remained after American troops withdrew from Iraq, such as the fact that Iraq's Republican Guard was not destroyed and that Saddam Hussein remained in power...
...Saddam Hussein and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, two of the world's least-understood leaders, have come together at last. Zhirinovsky, the tough-talking Russian nationalist with an eye on the Kremlin in 1996, wrapped up a four-day visit to Baghdad by urging an end to the international oil embargo against Iraq, which happens to owe Russia $7 billion...