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11/4/1980
“On November 4 [1980], Ronald Reagan is elected president. George H.W. Bush becomes vice president and James Baker becomes chief of staff to the president.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page 302 […]
9/22/1980
In The Iraq War Reader, Christopher Hitchens wrote: “Iranians of all factions are convinced that the United States actively encouraged Iraq to attack their country on September 22, 1980. It remains unclear exactly what the U.S. role was in this invasion; but there is ample evidence of the presence of our old friends, wink and […]
9/22/1980
“Under the impression that Iran was preoccupied with the American hostage crisis, Saddam Hussein escalated the ongoing border dispute by attacking several Iranian air bases in September [22] 1980. But Iran immediately responded by bombing a number of military and economic targets inside Iraq. The two countries then engaged in a full-scale war that would […]
9/22/1980
“Saddam Hussein had invaded Iran in September [22] 1980, in a disastrous miscalculation that the Islamist regime, which had overthrown the pro-U.S. shah of Iran, would be too weak to stand up to the Iraqi military. It turned out to be one of the longest conflicts of the twentieth century, with no victor emerging when […]
9/22/1980
“On September 22, 1980, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran, igniting an eight-year war between the two nations. Hussein invaded to gain access to the country’s primary waterway, its oil, and its regional power.” – Antonia Juhasz, The Bush Agenda, Page 157 […]
9/15/1980
“In September 1980, Saddam declared the abrogation of the Algiers Accord signed in 1975 with Iran, and soon afterward a war broke out. The eight-year war between Iraq and Iran [from September 22, 1980, to August 20, 1988] killed about 1 million people in the two countries and caused at least 900 billion US dollars […]
7/15/1980
Ayman al Zawahiri said, in his autobiographical Knights under the Prophet’s Banner published in December 2001: ” ‘My connection with Afghanistan began in the summer of 1980 by a twist of fate, when I was temporarily filling in for one of my colleagues at Al Sayyidah Zaynab Clinic [in Cairo]. One night the clinic director […]
7/15/1980
“While the U.S. Senate continued to block any attempt to export military equipment to Baghdad [Iraq], in July [1980, President Jimmy] Carter approved the sale of five Boeing airliners for Iraq’s national airline, America’s first significant commercial contract with Iraq since the Baathists came to power.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting […]
7/5/1980
“According to [Iranian] President [Abulhassan] Bani-Sadr and the New York Times, [President Jimmy] Carter’s desire to explore the possibility of a clandestine alliance with Saddam resulted in a top-secret meeting taking place in Amman, Jordan, during the first week of July 1980 between Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security adviser, and Saddam Hussein. According to the […]