“On November 4, 1979, militant students–responding to a decision by [President Jimmy] Carter to allow the deposed Shah [of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi] to enter the United States for cancer treatment–seized sixty-six Americans, thirteen of whom were freed over time. The rest were freed 444 days later, the day [Ronald] Reagan took office.” – Tyler […]
11/4/1979
“In November [4] 1979, Islamic extremists led a coup in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The Iranian revolution showed to bin Laden and his generation of Islamists that their dream of a Koranic theocracy was actually possible.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 8 […]
11/4/1979
On November 4, 1979, “Iranian militants took fifty-two American diplomats hostage in the U.S. embassy in Teheran.” – Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden, Page 8 […]
7/22/1979
Beginning on July 22, 1979, shortly after Saddam became president of Iraq, “a plot against Saddam by senior Ba’athists in league with the Syrian faction of the Ba’ath Party was supposedly uncovered. This resulted in the execution of twenty-two senior Ba’athists, including four members of the Revolutionary Command Council. Some were close friends and associates […]
7/17/1979
“British, French, American, Austrian, German, Swiss, Danish, and Swedish companies all contributed expertise to the Akashat/Al Qaim project, all believing that they were helping with the construction of a fertilizer production plant [in Iraq]. But the project turned out to be a classic example of dual-use technology. American and British intelligence officials have since confirmed […]
7/16/1979
“Immediately after seizing the presidency [of Iraq, on July 16, 1979], he [Saddam Hussein] convened an assembly of all Baath Party leaders, read the names of sixty-eight members whom he labeled ‘disloyal,’ and had them arrested. Twenty-two were later sentenced to death.” – Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 37 […]
7/16/1979
“On 16 July, 1979, [Ahmad Hassan] al-Bakr announced his resignation as president [of Iraq] in a move widely interpreted as being instigated by Saddam, who then became president.” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 29 […]
7/16/1979
“In July [16] 1979, Saddam was elected secretary general of the regional leadership of the Baath party in Iraq, chairman of the Revolution Command Council, president of the Republic of Iraq and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.” – “Profile: Former Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein,” China Daily, June 30, 2004 […]
7/3/1979
Former National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski said: ” ‘According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 […]
7/3/1979
National Security Advisor Zbigniew “Brzezinski and his aide Robert Gates from CIA, on July 3, 1979, persuaded [President Jimmy] Carter to send secret aid to Islamist militants in Afghanistan, six months before the Soviet invasion in December 1979. Brzezinski has since…said that he explained to Carter that in his opinion ‘this aid was going to […]