Sep 12,  · Account of King Hussein’s war warning still deemed too harmful to release PM Golda Meir’s testimony on the Yom Kippur War, as declassified Thursday after 40 years, omits all .

Jan 15,  · In Egypt, a young military officer named Gamal Abdel Nasser had led a revolt against the British-backed king in Nasser’s revolution inspired a wave of rebellions in the s and ’60s.

Dec 15,  · Deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rose from an impoverished background to become one of the world's most feared leaders. But with this year's U.S.-led .

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (/ h ʊ ˈ s eɪ n /; Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April – 30 December ) was the fifth President of Iraq from 16 July until 9 April A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its.

Jan 23,  · In March a future England captain was born in Madras. Yesterday Nasser Hussain returned to the city in a rickety Airbus probably of sufficient vintage to .

He subsequently fled to Egypt, where he received refuge from fellow Mufti disciple Nasser. At the time, Nasser, along with the Mufti himself, who resided in Cairo after the war and his conviction by the Nuremberg Tribunal of war crimes, was spearheading what was known as the Odessa Network, which facilitated the settlement of thousands of Nazi criminals in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world.

Nasser wanted to unite the Arab countries into one great one, capable of being completely independent. Most of the Western powers were opposed to that. The Ba'ath Party, to which Saddam belonged.