“In November 1969, Saddam [Hussein] was appointed as the deputy head of the Revolutionary Command Council, Iraq’s supreme governing body. He gathered all the intelligence agencies, the real bulwarks of Ba’athist power, into his hands. The first to go were the non-Ba’athist officers who had executed the coup of 1968. Military and civilian Ba’ath Party […]
1/20/1969
-Richard M. Nixon – Republican president inaugurated -Spiro T. Agnew – Vice President – […]
1/20/1969
-Richard Nixon – Republican president inaugurated -Spiro T. Agnew – Vice President – […]
11/5/1968
-Richard M. Nixon – Republican president elected -Spiro T. Agnew – Vice President – […]
7/17/1968
In Iraq, “Saddam [Hussein] helped lead the revolution on July 17, 1968, which eventually brought the Baath party to power under Gen. Ahmed Hassan Bakr.” – “Profile: Former Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein,” China Daily, June 30, 2004 […]
7/14/1968
“In July [16] 1968, the Ba’ath, in alliance with a few dissident army officers, launched a successful coup against the regime of [Iraqi President] Abd el-Rahman ‘Aref. Using both state and party platforms, and working under the wing of his kinsman, [coup leader] Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, now the president of Iraq, Saddam [Hussein] was able […]
2/28/1968
“On Jan. 21, 1968, The Washington Post ran a front-page photo of a U.S. soldier supervising the waterboarding of a captured North Vietnamese soldier. The caption said the technique induced ‘a flooding sense of suffocation and drowning, meant to make him talk.’ The picture led to an Army investigation and, two months later [February 28, […]
6/9/1967
“Formal diplomatic relations between the United States and Iraq were suspended after the Six Day War in [June 5-10] 1967.” – Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek, Page 36 […]
7/23/1966
“…after his escape [from prison on July 23, 1966], [Saddam Hussein] made contact with Robert Anderson, a CIA officer who made frequent trips to Baghdad to monitor efforts by the Soviets to take control of Iraq’s oil reserves.” – Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall, Page 64 […]
11/2/1964
Osama bin Laden’s father, Mohammad “Bin Laden became one of the most powerful men in the [Saudi] kingdom, even helping to put King Faisal on the throne in the early 1960s [November 2, 1964] and paying the wages of the entire Saudi civil service for the following four months because of a hole in the […]