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Saddam Hussein/Related Articles
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Parent topics
- Iraq [r]: Country in the Middle East, currently transitioning from rule by the US. [e]
- Ba'ath Party [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Tikrit [r]: Saddam Hussein's place of birth, a town in the Sunni Triangle of central Iraq [e]
- Uday Hussein [r]: Saddam Hussein's elder son, who had lost authority to his brother Qusay Hussein due to erratic behavior, but still was in the privileged inner circle and prepared the Saddam Fedayeen irregulars [e]
- Qusay Hussein [r]: Younger son (1966-2003) and apparent heir to Saddam Hussein; head of the Special Security Organization and other key posts [e]
- Security organization of Saddam Hussein [r]: The multiple security organizations that protected the person, government, and sensitive projects of Saddam Hussein, also cross-checking one another [e]
- Himayah [r]: Arabic for "protection", the personal protection/bodyguard and personal logistics organization for Saddam Hussein [e]
- Special Guard [r]: Extremely trusted personal staff of Saddam Hussein, who were responsible for potentially lethal logistical services such as food and laundry; also known as Haras al-Khas [e]
- Special Protection [r]: Also known as Amn al-Khas, the 24-hour personal bodyguards of Saddam Hussein [e]
- Special Security Organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Special Republican Guard [r]: A well-armed military force that stayed in the Baghdad area, principally to protect Saddam Hussein against coups by the Army, but was part of a final defense against invasion, as in the Iraq War; was also involved in security of weapons of mass destruction [e]
- Republican Guard [r]: Well-trained, equipped, and presumably politically loyal ground troops of Saddam Hussein's military [e]
- Himayah [r]: Arabic for "protection", the personal protection/bodyguard and personal logistics organization for Saddam Hussein [e]
- Saddam Fedayeen [r]: An Iraqi paramilitary force, fanatically loyal to Saddam Hussein and usually commanded by his son, Uday Hussein, used for internal control, and, surprisingly, against the supply lines of US forces in the Iraq War [e]
- Iran-Iraq War [r]: War between Iran and Iraq, 1980-1988, with very high casualties on both sides, but an inconclusive result [e]
- Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
- Operation DESERT FOX [r]: A December 1998 U.S. and U.K. air campaign against Iraq, to punish Saddam Hussein for interferences with weapons of mass destruction searches by the United Nations UNSCOM inspectors [e]
- Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation [e]
- Iraq and weapons of mass destruction [r]: Threats, development programs and actual use, of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq, from the 1970s through the Iraq War [e]
- Chemical weapon [r]: A weapon that cause death or disease by means of chemical interaction with the metabolism of the victim, as opposed to causing injury through blast, thermal, or other effects not on a molecular level [e]
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Abu Ghraib prison [r]: A prison by Saddam Hussein, and then as a U.S. detention facility following the Iraq War, including a period when guards were out of control; now under the Iraqi Ministry of Justice. [e]
- Ahmed Chalabi [r]: An Iraqi politician, who spent much of his time in exile or in Kurdistan, who has declining influence in the current situation but is still regarded as well-connected [e]
- America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy [r]: A 2006 book by Francis Fukuyama, examining the role of neoconservatism in American foreign policy, its execution by the George W. Bush Administration, and a proposed evolved political philosophy to replace it [e]
- Bounty (reward) [r]: A sum of money given, often by a government, to a person or persons in return for a service or act. [e]
- CIA activities in Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Committee on the Present Danger [r]: An interest group that has been formed periodically to draw attention to a threat to the United States [e]
- Covert action [r]: Any of a range of activities, intended to affect the behavior of a target nation or non-national actor, where the fact of the action is known, but the responsibility for the action cannot be proven. [e]
- DBANABASIS [r]: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) code for covert operations to destabilize the government of Saddam Hussein before the Iraq War [e]
- David Frum [r]: An American conservative author and commentator, who advocates renewal of the conservative movement and U.S. Republican Party, and has written in favor of an aggressive policy against terror, including preventive war; fired in March 2010 as Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute [e]
- David Wurmser [r]: A neoconservative specialist in Middle East policy, who advised Dick Cheney, John Bolton and Douglas Feith in the George W. Bush Administration, as well as writing extensively in favor of interventionist policies in the region; ; advisory board, U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon; co-founder, Middle Eastern Media Review Institute [e]
- Dick Cheney [r]: (1941–) U.S. Vice President in the George W. Bush Administration and advocate of neoconservatism and unitary Presidential authority; currently a political commentator; U.S. Secretary of Defense in the George H. W. Bush Administration; spouse of Lynne Cheney; father of Liz Cheney [e]
- Douglas Feith [r]: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute [e]
- George H. W. Bush [r]: (1924–) 41st U.S. President (Republican), elected in 1988 and serving one term; Director of Central Intelligence; U.S. Ambassador to China; youngest naval aviator in WWII [e]
- George W. Bush [r]: (1946–) 43rd U.S. President (Republican), elected in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. [e]
- Gulf War, Iraqi order of battle [r]: The hierarchy of Iraqi military units capable of conventional combat in the Gulf War, although at least one level was devoted solely to the defense of Saddam Hussein [e]
- Gulf War [r]: The conflict started by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the liberation of Kuwait and major damage to Iraqi forces, by a US-led UN coalition in 1991. [e]
- Office of Special Plans [r]: A small office, formerly in the U.S. Department of Defense, created by Douglas Feith, under general supervision of William Luti and directly headed by Abram Shulsky, which took unprocessed intelligence and bypassed independent analysis, to present evidence supporting policy positions; this was a conscious "top-down" methodology contrasting to the traditional "bottom-up" of intelligence analysis [e]
- Scorpions (Iraq War) [r]: One of several Central Intelligence Agency teams intended to destabilize Saddam Hussein before the Iraq War; ineffective before the war, and involved in the death of a prisoner in interrogation after the active combat phase [e]
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- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs [r]: An organization dedicated to advancing the strategic relationship between the US and Israel, with military exchanges, education and research [e]
- Kenneth Adelman [r]: Member, Committee on the Present Danger; Board of Trustees, Freedom House; board, International Crisis Group; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Reagan Administration; Republican activist who supported Barack Obama [e]
- Kuwait [r]: Country on the Persian Gulf bordering Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south; population of 2.5 million. [e]
- Mirage F-1 [r]: A French third-generation multirole fighter [e]
- National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002) [r]: The key public document on national security strategy, issued by the George W. Bush Administration between the 9-11 Attack and the Iraq War [e]
- Paul Wolfowitz [r]: An American political scientist and policy-level foreign affairs official, of a neoconservative ideology; resident American Enterprise Institute and on International Security Advisory Board; Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration; advisor, Project for the New American Century [e]
- R. James Woolsey [r]: Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Director, Atlantic Council; Member, International Security Advisory Board, United States Department of State; Board of Advisors, Family Security Matters; Former Director of Central Intelligence, Bill Clinton Administration; Advisor, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs; advisory board, American Congress for Truth; board of advisers, American Foreign Policy Council; Board, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; spouse of Suzanne Woolsey [e]
- Richard Perle [r]: An American political scientist who has been an important advisor and facilitator, rather than executive, for U.S. foreign policy and is associated with neoconservatism [e]
- UNSCOM [r]: A United Nations agency, created in April 1991, to inspect Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and long-range guided missiles, and to supervise destruction of weapons and production facilities [e]
