Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
Slender shoulders, a limp handshake and soft-spoken lisp. Those were the most vivid memories from my meeting with Bashar al ...
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Saddam To Assad, Burying The Ba'ath Party And Its Brutal Slant On Arab Power
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Deseret News archives: Saddam Hussein captured in Iraq in 2003 in inglorious fashion
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The Hunt for the Assad Dynasty’s Missing Billions Begins
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December 13, Saddam Hussein captured in Iraq
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Assad exhibited little of the tackiness of Iraq’s Saddam. But his rule was just as brutal
It was 2007 and the insurgency against US troops was raging next door in Iraq. Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a fellow secular Baathist like Assad, had been executed just six months earlier.