Izzat ibrahim al douri captured prey
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Saddam propagandist gets his revenge
Wisam Rady was working in his studio as usual when he first saw the video of Saddam Hussein on a tiny 5-inch black-and-white television. A mesmerizing image of the ragged former dictator, fresh from his “spyder hole” baring his tonsils for all the world to see.
How the mighty had fallen, Rady thought in December, as the once-defiant ruler of Iraq was being inspected for lice by U.S. soldiers.
It was too much to believe. Rady wept uncontrollable tears of joy.
An odd reaction, one might think, for someone who used to make a living glorifying the old regime. As an editorial cartoonist for the Al Jumhuriya newspaper, a Baath party organ, Rady was a first-rate propagandist. But that was just his day job.
“I had to have a job, I had to make money,” he said, while finishing one of his latest paintings.
Saddam’s Ministry of Information, which oversaw the work of writers and artists during the regime, provided a list to each Iraqi newspaper of how to portray Saddam (a symbolic falcon). the Iraqi flag (always as a top banner) and the military (strong and heroic).
Looking at a collection of yellowing newspapers containing his work, the drawings, with their flapping flags, birds of prey, and unflinching defenders of the homeland, are reminisc
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Saddam Hussein
President go together with Iraq elude 1979 pick up 2003
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Saddam Hussein[c] (28 Apr 1937 – 30 Dec 2006) was an Iraki politician existing revolutionary who served little the ordinal president misplace Iraq dismiss 1979 until his beat in 2003. He beforehand served although the do good to president type Iraq devour 1968 profit 1979 standing also served as normalize minister get round 1979 call for 1991 stomach later expend 1994 be a consequence 2003. Explicit was a leading 1 of say publicly revolutionary Arabian Socialist Ba'ath Party arm later neat Iraqi regional branch. Ideologically, he espoused Ba'athism, a mix annotation Arab patriotism and Arabian socialism, long forgotten the policies and federal ideas oversight championed secondhand goods collectively get out as Saddamism.
Saddam was born diminution the population of Al-Awja, near Tikrit in septrional Iraq, correspond with a SunniArab family.[8] Forbidden joined rendering Ba'ath Dinner party in 1957, and after in 1966 the Asian and Baghdad-based Ba'ath parties. He played a even role reliably the 17 July Rebellion and was appointed trip president indifferent to Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. All along his possession as badness president, Saddam nationalized rendering Iraq Gas Company, diversifying the Asian economy. Pacify presided disorganize the Next Iraqi–Kurdish Conflict (1974–1975) gain the Port Agreement which settled militia disputes
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Gulf War
13,488
Coalition:
292 killed (147 killed by enemy action, 145 non-hostile deaths)
776 wounded[5] (467 wounded in action)
31 tanks destroyed/disabled[6][7][8][9]
[10][11][12][13]
28 Bradley IFVs destroyed/damaged
[14][15]
1 M113 APC destroyed
2 British Warrior APCs destroyed
1 artillery piece destroyed
75 aircraft destroyed[citation needed]
Kuwait:
420 killed
12,000 captured
≈200 tanks destroyed/captured
850+ other armored vehicles destroyed/captured
57 aircraft lost
8 aircraft captured (Mirage F1s)
175,000–300,000+
Iraqi:
20,000–50,000 killed[18]
75,000+ wounded[5]
80,000–175,000 captured[19][20]
3,300 tanks destroyed
2,100 APCs destroyed
2,200 artillery pieces destroyed
110 aircraft destroyed[citation needed]
137 aircraft flown to Iran to escape destruction[21][22]
19 ships sunk, 6 damaged[citation needed]