Part I: Early Beginnings to the Presidency

• April 28, 1937 is the declared birth date of Saddam Hussein in the village of Ouja, near Tikrit in northern Iraq. He is born of a poor landless peasant family. His father dies, or disappears, before Saddam is born. He is sent to live with his maternal uncle a military officer, Khairallah Talfah, who influenced Saddam's life tremendously. Several reports link Saddam to the murders of a school teacher and/or a cousin during these early years.

• Early 1950's Saddam in continuing his education got his first Anti-Colonialism training from his mentor and teacher Khairallah Talfah, who had been cashiered out of the Iraq Army for supporting an attempted pro-nazi coup.

• 1950s Shah of Iran who is front for Corporate Oil Cartel is voted out of office, new President nationalizes Iran oil-fields, Britain no longer makes 90% of oil production profits.

• 1953 US government uses CIA and bribery to re-install the Shah of Iran, SAVAK Secret Police is set up and trained to keep Iranian population under control by whatever means necessary.

• 1957 Saddam joins the Ba'th party at the age of 20. Also in this year Saddam was denied admission to the prestigious Baghdad Military Academy (probably because he had not finished high school), a humiliating blow that dishonors him vis-à-vis his military counterparts. (Later, in 1976, President Bakr confers on him the rank of General.)

• 1959 Complicity in an assassination attempt against Abdul Karim Qasim, Prime Minister of Iraq after the 1958 revolution. He flees to Egypt, where he spends the next four years and completes high school.

• 1959 Saddam while exiled in Egypt continued his Anti-Colonialism training from a group of baathist, whose teaching was that only through Arab Nationalism could Arab nations rid themselves of Western Colonialism.

• February 1963-November 1963 First Ba'th regime in Iraq. Saddam, a mid-level operative, takes no part in the coup. After the collapse of the Ba'th regime in November 1963, Saddam takes charge of organizing a Ba'th security organ, "Jihaz Haneen." This becomes the core of the dreaded security apparatus after 1968.

• July 17-30 1968 The 2nd Ba'th regime takes over. A bloodless coup by senior Arab Nationalist officers and retired Ba'thist officers overthrows the regime of President Abd al-Rahman Aref. Saddam is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Ba'th party at the time, but plays a minor role in the coup. Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr, a relative of Saddam, becomes president and chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC).

• July 30, 1968 Saddam carries out a plot to oust the rival faction (Arab Nationalist officers) in the coup. Among others, minister of Defense Ibrahim Dawood is "sent" to Jordan and Prime Minister Abd al-Razzah Nayif is "sent" to Morocco.

• Fall of 1968 beginning of purges to remove all non-Ba'thists from posts within state institutions. Saddam engages in purifying the government and society of potential dissidents. The higher echelons of the military and the government deemed disloyal are sent into retirement, imprisoned, tortured, or executed. Members of non-Ba'th political parties and non-Arabs are accused of crimes and executed or deported.

• November 1968 Nasir al-Hani, former Foreign Minister and co-plotter of the July 17, 1968 coup is abducted from his home under the pretext that President Bakr wanted to consult with him. A few days later his body is discovered dumped in a ditch.

• January 17, 1969 Alleged "spies" (including 13 Jews) are hanged in Liberation Square.

• August 8, 1969 Kurdish village of Dakan in Mosul governorate is site of a massacre performed by the army.

• October 1969 Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, former prime minister, is imprisoned on charges of being a Zionist agent. Tortured and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

• November 1969 President al-Bakr, Saddam's kinsman, appoints Saddam Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) and Vice-President. He controls the internal security and intelligence organs and is the driving force behind the regime.

• March 1970 Hundreds of Communists are arrested and tortured, the communist ICP group goes underground.

• March 11, 1970 An "autonomy agreement" is concluded between the Kurds, under Mulla Mustafa Barzani, and the central government, but was never implemented.

• October 15, 1970 Hardan al-Tikriti, Minister of defense, Deputy Premier, and former member of the RCC, is dismissed from all his functions. Assassinated in Kuwait on March 30, 1971.

• September 1971 Failed assassination attempt on Mulla Mustapha Barzani, the Kurdish leader. Several other people are killed in the attempt.

• September 28, 1971 Abd al-Karim al-Shaikhli, Foreign Minister and member of RCC is dismissed, appointed to a position at the UN. Later assassinated.

• 1972 President Al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein nationalize Iraq oil, signing Friendship Treaty PAC with Russia.

• 1972 1st wave of deportations of Iraqi Arabs, Turkoman and Kurdish families, stripped of their citizenship and sent to Iran.

• July 8, 1973 The Chief of Internal Security, Nadhim Kzar, is executed along with 35 other after reports a coup and conspiracy.

• 1974-1975 War against the Kurds ignites again. Phosphorous shells are reportedly used against the Kurds.

• March 1974 The Kurdish towns of Zakho and Qala'at Diza are razed to the ground. 8,000 Kurds disappear from the village of Barzan.

• December 1974 5 Shi'a 'ulama are executed.

• March 6, 1975 Saddam signs Algiers Accord with the Shah of Iran. The Accord defines border with Iran and ends Iranian support for Kurds.

• March-April 1975 Major exodus of Kurds to Iran, including departure of leader, Mulla Mustapha Barzani.

• 1975-1979 President Bakr remains the head of State, but his power is virtually reduced to a figurehead while Saddam controls in the president's shadow.

• February 1977 Beginning of mass deportations to Iran of Iraqi Shi'a, confiscation of their property and "disappearance" of sons. Estimated that by early 80's, 200,000 Iraqis are deported to Iran and stripped of nationality and property.

• February/March 1977 Eight Shi'a dignitaries, 5 clergy and 3 laymen are executed. Mass purges of Shi'a suspected of belonging to the Da'wa Party.

• 1978 Shah of Iran is diagnosed with life threatening cancer, his nation due to despotic rule is in revolt.

• 1978-79 The Iraq regime eliminates an estimated 7,000 Iraqi Communists.

• October 1978 Ayatollah Khomeini, exiled by the Shah and living in Najaf, is expelled from Iraq.

• May 1979 All Communist party offices are closed down in all provinces.

• 1979 The Shah of Iran although still as head of state boards plane with wife leaving for Western cure of his cancer, stays some time in Florida, studies news reports of his old regime being arrested and taken to trial.

• January 16, 1979 Khomeini returned to Iran (from France) at request of revolution leaders. The Shaw of Iran had by this time been diagnosed with life threatening cancer. Eventually with the Shaw gone the interim government holds elections and a Parliamentary Theocracy is overwhelmingly voted in. The Shaws SAVAK secret Police fall as result of an irate Iranian population, and revolutionaries take US Embassy people hostage as CIA agents involved in covertly setting up the Shaw and SAVAK Secret Police.

• July 16, 1979 At the age of 42, Saddam forces Al-Bakr to retire and is sworn in as President of the Republic of Iraq. President Bakr officially steps down. Saddam now holds the posts of President of the Republic, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Secretary-General of the Ba'th Party Regional Command, Prime Minister, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Saddam grants himself a Staff Field Marshal army rank.

• 1979-81 It is reported that Saddam as a result of expecting US aid and military equipment for war on Iran, kicks terrorist such as Abu Nidal out of Iraq. Abu Nidal slips back into Iraq sometime in 2001 with serious cancer problem, in what is reported as a plot by Kuwait, but is found and arrested. By Aug. 19, 2002 Abu Nidal commits suicide by shooting self several times, found dead in his Bagdad apartment.

• July 15-August 8, 1979 In order to consolidate his power, Saddam embarks on a purge, reminiscent of Stalin, in which party members are accused of being involved in a Syrian plot to place Iraq under Syrian hegemony and remove Iraq's leadership. By the end of the purge, hundreds of top ranking Ba'athists and army officers are executed, including five members of the RCC. Various testimony say that the CIA working out of Kuwait furnished Saddam with names of Iraq leaders to purge. In this regard Henry Kissinger is later heard saying about another CIA's betrayal of Iraqi Kurds, covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

• 1980 The Shah of Iran finds no cure for his cancer, also no Western ally friends, dies in Egypt from cancer.

• April 1980 Revolutionary Command Council bans the Da'wa Party and membership in its ranks becomes a capital crime punishable by death.

• April 1980 Leading Shi'a cleric Sayyid Muhammad Baqir Al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda are executed.

• September 22, 1980 Five days after Saddam publicly tears up the 1975 Algiers Accord with Iran and denounces "the frequent and blatant Iranian violation of Iraqi sovereignty", the Iraqi Air Force bombs Iranian airfields and Iraqi forces invade Iran.

• September 30, 1980, two Iranian Phantom jets, part of a larger group of aircraft attack a conventional electric power plant near Baghdad also bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor.

• June 7, 1980, eight Israeli F-16s enter Baghdad sky and bomb the Iraqi reactor again, after this point it would be essentially impossible to acquire replacement facilities to develop and produce a nuclear bomb.

• 1981-82, Iraq war against Iran is going badly, Saddam now in deep debt with neighbor nation's who in part financed war against Iran, Ronald Reagan removes Iraq from US "Terrorist Supporting Nation" list (embargo), and US-government now openly supports Saddam Hussein with aid and WMD.

• 1982, former President Bakr dies mysteriously. It is widely suspected that Saddam is involved.

• Feb 1982 President Reagan removes Iraq from US list of "Terrorist Supporting Nations", it is now legal for financial and military support be given to Iraq by every nation on earth.

• June 1982 Riyadh Ibrahim, Minister of Health and Shafiq 'Abd al-Jabbar Kamali, ex-RCC member, are executed.

• Mid-1982 President Ronald Reagan sends Donald Rumsfeld to ally Saddam for continued war against Iran. Iran after the fall of the Shaw had removed Western Oil Corporation control of Iran Oil Reserves. Military arms shipments resume to Iraq, surplus US Agriculture products are shipped to Iraq, are then sold by Iraq to further enhance Saddams military budget.

• 1987-1988 Saddam launches the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, in which some 180,000 "disappear." 4,000 villages are razed. Depopulation of large areas of eastern Kurdistan.

• March 1988 - The Kurdish town of Halabja is gassed. 5,000 people perish, 10,000 suffer injuries.

• August 1988 - A number of Kurdish villages on Turkish borders are gassed. Thousands of casualties.

• August 1988 - Ceasefire declared between Iraq and Iran, ending the 8-year war. The war is estimated to have caused one million casualties including 250,000 Iraqi dead. Saddam Hussein begins speaking out in Arab conferences against US government interests and colonial control of oil-rich Middle East Arab nations.

• May 1989 - Adnan Khayrallah, Saddam's cousin, brother-in-law, popular army officer and Defense Minister, dies in a helicopter crash widely believed to be engineered by Saddam.

• 1990 - Information surfaces about US government giving Iraq Top Secret Spy-plane and Satellite Data of Iraq/Iran battle field, which Saddam uses to more accurately poison gas (both) Iraqi and Iranian civilians.

• March 1990 - British journalist Farzad Bazoft is executed on charges of espionage. International indignation brings attention to the brutality of Saddam regime.

• July 25, 1990 - US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, tells Saddam Hussein, "We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border dispute with Kuwait," re-emphasized as continued support from US Sect-State, in effect giving Iraq a green light to invade Kuwait.

• July 27, 1990 - President Bush (Sr) opposes sanctions against Iraq for massacuring Kurds.

• July 31, 1990 - John Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State repeats Glaspie's assertion that the US has no opinion on border disputes.

• August 2, 1990 Iraqi troops cross into Kuwait and occupy the country, ejecting the Kuwaiti government.
  (this one actually is in The News'timeline). 1990-1991 - US drops 177,000 pounds of bombs on Kuwait and Iraq, in what historian William Blum calls, "The most concentrated aerial assault in the history of the world." US uses depleted uranium (atomic) weaponry and cluster plus Napalm bombs against Iraqi troops.

• August 28, 1990 Kuwait officially becomes the 19th province of Iraq.

• October 10, 1990, In TV-Broadcast to US citizens a 15-year old Kuwaiti girl tells (fake) Congressional Human Rights Caucus (TV coverage and volunteer Congressmen set up by Hill & Knowlton PR-agency) about Iraq atrocities in Kuwait. Her testimony now proven false included "I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," Nayirah said. "While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where ... babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die." It later is found she was daughter of Kuwait ambassador who had never worked in the hospital, instead being member of the al-Sabah royal family. President Geo HW Bush then uses this manufactured propaganda in a "war for Democracy."

• January 17, 1991 President GHW Bush changes mind, allied planes (UN) begin bombing Iraq. Int'l-oil prices now at $11.00/bbl will drop to $9.46/bb by Nov 26, 1998. In this same period of time, Iraq oil-production is drastically reduced, explain how Int'l-oil prices drop from ($11.00 to $9.46) with one of the major oil-producers of the world sharply reducing production. Better yet, after Halliburton is given (no bid) contract to put Iraq oil-production back on line, Int'l-oil prices rise (2005) to $64.00/bbl.

• From 1998-2000 Saddam was pushing OPEC and non-OPEC oil-producing nations to flood the world oil market with cheap oil, the purpose to destroy the $US Int'l-Dollar as note of exchange.

• Around year 2000 Saddam stopped Oil sales 1-month, to protest the Aparthied suffering of Palestinians caused by the Zionist-gov in Israel, apparently with plans to persuade other Middle East oil producing nations into future boycot of Israel friendly nations by disrupting their oil needs.

• Early 2000 Saddam decides to end accepting US Dollar as Note for exchange in all future oil sales, the future Note of exchange will only be the EURO dollar. President George Bush is now in big hurry to install a "New Regime" in Iraq. Saddam also asking OPEC nations to disrupt oil supply deliveries to nations aiding Zionist Israel in Apartheid destruction of Palestinian people.

• In March of year 2006 IRAN has plans to change from the present $US-dollar Note of exchange, all future oil business sales to be done in exchange with the $EURO Note only. Remember that the US economy is based upon a FIAT-scheme most call 'Check Kiting'. Iran also threatening to flood world oil market with cheap oil, US Navy is sent to blockade the Persian Gulf.