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The rise and fall of Saddam Hussein

The rise to power of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein

The rise to power of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein. A report on the first Gulf War following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and how he sabotaged a rebellion by his own people signing a subsequent peace agreement. The assumption that Hussein would be overthrown in the aftermath of 1991's events, was not realised.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

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