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To: Neocon who wrote (262)	3/12/1999 6:33:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 765

The History of Saddam: Presidency to the Gulf War (1979-1991) On July 16, 1979, at the age of 42, Saddam forces Al-Bakr to retire and is sworn in as President of the Republic of Iraq. President Bakr officially steps down. Saddam now holds the posts of President of the Republic, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Secretary-General of the Ba'th Party Regional Command, Prime Minister, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Saddam grants himself a Staff Field Marshal army rank. July 15-August 8, 1979. In order to consolidate his power, Saddam embarks on a purge, reminiscent of Stalin, in which party members are accused of being involved in a Syrian plot to place Iraq under Syrian hegemony and remove Iraq's leadership. By the end of the purge, hundreds of top ranking Ba'thists and army officers are executed, including five members of the RCC. April 1980. Revolutionary Command Council bans the Da'wa Party and membership in its ranks becomes a capital crime punishable by death. April 1980. Leading Shi'a cleric Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda are executed. On September 22, 1980, five days after Saddam Saddam publicly tears up the 1975 Algiers Accord with Iran and denounces "the frequent and blatant Iranian violation of Iraqi sovereignty", the Iraqi Air Force bombs Iranian airfields and Iraqi forces invade Iran. In 1982, former President Bakr dies mysteriously. It is widely suspected that Saddam is implicated. June 1982. Riyadh Ibrahim, Minister of Health and Shafiq 'Abd al-Jabbar Kamali, ex-RCC member, are executed. 1987-1988. Saddam launches the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, in which some 180,000 "disappear", 4,000 villages are razed. Depopulation of large areas of eastern Kurdistan. March 1988. The Kurdish town of Halabja is gassed. 5,000 people perish, 10,000 suffer injuries. August 1988. A number of Kurdish villages on Turkish borders are gassed. Thousands of casualties. August 1988. Ceasefire declared between Iraq and Iran, ending the 8-year war. The war is estimated to have caused one million casualties including 250,000 Iraqi dead. May 1989. Adnan Khayrallah, Saddam's cousin, brother-in-law, popular army officer and Defense Minister, dies in a helicopter crash widely believed to be engineered by Saddam. March 1990. British journalist Farzad Bazoft is executed on charges of espionage. International indignation brings attention to the brutality of Saddam regime. August 2, 1990. Iraqi troops cross into Kuwait and occupy the country, ejecting the Kuwaiti government. August 28, 1990. Kuwait officially becomes the 19th province of Iraq. January 17, 1991. Allied planes begin bombing Iraq.