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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1899)	1/20/2003 12:54:46 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

No, the Ba'ath Party took power several years before that, in 1963: <<< "We came to power on a CIA train," admitted Ali Saleh Sa'adi, the Baath Party secretary general who was about to institute an unprecedented reign of terror. CIA assistance reportedly included coordination of the coup plotters from the agency's station inside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad as well as a clandestine radio station in Kuwait and solicitation of advice from around the Middle East on who on the left should be eliminated once the coup was successful. >>> ddh.nl Going back 4 more years: <<< In 1959, there was a failed assassination attempt on Qasim. The failed assassin was none other than a young Saddam Hussein. >>> Tom