30 Facts About the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad

30 Facts About the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad

Trista - December 25, 2018

30 Facts About the Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussein, the Butcher of Baghdad
Saddam Hussein and the Ba’ath Party student cell, Cairo, in the period 1959-1963. Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

27. Saddam Hussein Joined the Ba’ath Party

Saddam’s uncle, Kharaillah Talfah, was a Ba’athist nationalist. The Ba’athist party promoted pan-Arab unity across the Middle East as a response to colonialism and imperialism, particularly in regard to the region’s oil. Saddam joined the party when he was 20, when pan-Arab nationalists were gaining power in the Middle East.

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