Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

In the post -World War II era, the competition of global supremacy between the superpowers of the time, United States and the Soviet Union resulted in the Cold War. Many countries in the world were pulled into this rivalry including many of the states of the Middle East. Allies against the Soviet Union received substantial quantities of United States aid and were encouraged to purchase weapons of Western means. Those who were in opposition to the United States’ power received economic and military

within the country. Iraq recorded another first in the region in 1958. General ‘Abd al-Karim Qasim carried out another military coup which would culminate in the execution of the head of state. Soon after that Qasim would find himself at the other end of the spectrum and be the target in someone else’s plot to over-throw a leader. In 1979, vice president Saddam Hussein deposed the president, General Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, who subsequently died from apparent poisoning. (Raphaeli

Iraq. Arab nationalist and other political activists led an uprising against the Regent monarch resulting in a coup d’etat in July 1958 by members of the newly formed Ba’ath Party. (4) A series of power struggles ended 10 years later placing Ahmed Hasan al-Bakr as President, with a young Saddam Hussein as his deputy. After many years of operating as President Bakr’s chief of security and instituting measures of loyalty among various sectors of the Iraqi Ba’ath government, Saddam Hussein demanded the

What impact did the Cold War have on the Middle East? We see the cold war as a period of hostility, which ended in 1989 between the Soviet Union and the USA in which neither country fired shots at each other directly but engaged in proxy wars to propagate their opposing ideological views and expand their influence globally. The tentacles of the opposing sides spread globally and the Middle East was no exception and it is impossible to know what influence Oil had. In 1953 the countries of the Middle

the Statutory Law and the Sharia Law (Human Rights Act 1998 of The British law as an exemplar) Dissertation Submitted for The MA Degree in International Journalism University of Westminster By Motasem Ahmed Dalloul Copyright (2012), University of Westminster and Motasem Ahmed Dalloul Introduction Getting in touch with media law during the first semester of my Masters gave me a sense of the importance of law in general because it consists of acts and articles which organise