Saddam Hussein Biography Wikipedia

Sokolov Stanislav journalist Pogovorim. His father, the poor peasant Hussein al-Majid, died before the birth of his son. The mother of the little Saddam Saba gave the child to educate his uncle Herallah Tulfahu. He treated his nephew as his own son, and, perhaps, the fate of the future Iraqi president would have developed differently if the boy had to return to his mother, secondly married.

The family suffered from extreme poverty, and Saddam grew in an atmosphere of squalor and constant hunger. He often fought with peers who did not like the “townspeople”, and the Ibrahim's stepfather al-Hasan periodically beat the stepson with a stick, smeared in a sticky resin. Humiliations experienced in childhood, as well as the habit of everyday cruelty in many ways influenced the formation of the character of Saddam.

Fortunately for him, in the city of Herallah, he left prison and took his nephew to his Tikrite. Here, a boy who did not know how to write until 10 years old began to attend school. Being an ardent nationalist, Herallah Tulfah significantly influenced his views, so after moving to Baghdad Hussein in the city In Hussein, he took part in the attempt on Iraqi Prime Minister Abel Kerim Kashm.

It turned out to be unsuccessful - the prime minister survived, and Saddam had to escape from the country, to Syria. In exile, Hussein became the second man in the leadership of Baas after her secretary General Ahmed Hassan Bakra. Hussein took the post of deputy chairman and controlled the work of the security service. For 11 years, Hussein, formally, remaining just and just as deputy Bakra, gradually concentrated all power in his hands.

The position of Saddam was especially strengthened when in the middle of the x. The new president of the Republic of Iraq, the chairman of the Council of the Revolutionary Command, Saddam Hussein, became the Supreme Commander -in -Chief and General Secretary of Baas. Having survived during the operation “Storm in the desert”, Hussein managed not to miss the power from his hands.

He mercilessly suppressed the performance of the Kurds in the north of the country and the Iraqis -Shiits that began after the defeat of the Iraqi army - in the south. Equally ruthlessly, the president also dealt with possible political rivals in his immediate environment. So, in the city of International Blockade did not lead to the fall of the Hussein regime. On the contrary, in conditions of complete dominance of official propaganda, drawing the United States and other Western countries by the enemies of the Iraqis and the "puppets of Israel", the inhabitants of the country were even more rally around their president.

And although recently there have been reports of the worsening health of the president more and more often, while he has been holding power over Iraq. Iraq managed to destroy the aura of the United States, the Evil Empire, Terror and aggression.

Iraq struck a gap in a myth of American superiority and forced the United States to fall out in the dust. ” In fact, Iraq suffered a crushing defeat: only human losses amounted to thousands. The country fell into the ring of international trade and economic blockade. Iraqi had to allow an international commission to their arms production plants. This short war cost not only Iraq, but also Kuwait.

The total amount of losses incurred by the emirate amounted to about billion dollars. A cloud of black smoke stood over the country - they burned with oil wells set on fire by the invaders. The population brutally suffered from diseases, especially from the cholera epidemic that erupted due to the malfunction of the water supply. The losses of the allies were minimal: a man died in the battles, of which they were only American military personnel.