Saddam Hussein Signed Autographed Manuscript Letter Bashar Al-Assad Rare Document

  

Saddam Hussein Signed Manuscript Autographed Letter Bashar Al-Assad Rare Document. This product sheet is originally written in English. Please find below an automatic translation into French. If you have any questions, please contact us. For your consideration, you will find an extremely rare and historically significant original handwritten and signed letter from the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to President Bashar al-Assad from the 1990s.

This particular Iraqi royal letter is extremely rare, given its president-to-president content. The royal letter from Saddam Hussein is written on official letterhead of the Kingdom of Iraqi Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein's autograph is handwritten, signed in red ink. The handwritten royal presentation letter measures approximately 6.85" x 8.25". The royal presentation document is original. Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (April 28, 1937 - December 30, 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He was also Prime Minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991, and then from 1994 to 2003. He was a prominent member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and later the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, which embraced Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. Saddam was born in the village of Al-Awja, near Tikrit, in northern Iraq, to a Sunni Arab peasant family. He joined the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 1957, as well as the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organization, the Iraqi Ba'ath Party. He played a key role in the July 17 Revolution and was appointed Vice President by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr.

While serving as Vice President, Saddam nationalized the Iraq Petroleum Company, thus diversifying the Iraqi economy. After al-Bakr's resignation in 1979, Saddam officially took power, although he had already been the de facto leader of Iraq for several years. Positions of power in the country were mostly held by Sunni Arabs, a minority that represented only one-fifth of the population.

Upon taking office, Saddam instituted a purge of the Ba'ath Party. Saddam ordered the invasion of Iran in 1980 with the aim of capturing the Iranian province of Khuzestan, which has a majority Arab population, and countering Iranian attempts to export their own 1979 revolution.

Iraq was defeated by a multinational coalition led by the United States. The United Nations subsequently imposed sanctions against Iraq. He suppressed the Iraqi uprisings of Kurds and Shiite Muslims in 1991, who were seeking independence or to overthrow the government. Saddam adopted an anti-American stance and launched the Faith Campaign, pursuing an Islamist agenda in Iraq.

Saddam's regime was marked by numerous human rights violations, including approximately 250,000 deaths and arbitrary disappearances. In 2003, the United States and its allies invaded Iraq, wrongly accusing Saddam of developing weapons of mass destruction and maintaining links with Al-Qaeda. The Ba'ath Party was banned and Saddam went into hiding. After his capture on December 13, 2003, his trial took place under the Iraqi interim government.

On November 5, 2006, Saddam was found guilty by the Iraqi High Tribunal of crimes against humanity related to the murder of 148 Iraqi Shiites in 1982 and was sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed on December 30, 2006.

Saddam was accused of running an authoritarian and repressive government, which several analysts described as totalitarian, although the applicability of this label has been contested. Saddam adopted an anti-American stance.