Ali Salih al-Sa'di

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Ali Salih al-Sa'di
On March 15, 1963, Ali Salih al-Sa'di was a member of an Iraqi delegate for unity talks in Cairo among the rulers of Egypt, Syria and Iraq. From left to right: Kamal el-Din Hussein of Egypt, unknown person, Anwar as-Sadat of Egypt, Abd al-Hakim Amer of Egypt, an Iraqi officer, Ziad al-Hariri of Syria, Nahid al-Qasim of Syria, Gamal Abdel Nasser from Egypt and Ali Salih al-Saadi from Iraq.
Ali Salih al-Sa'di

Ali Salih as-Sa'di ( Arabic علي صالح السعدي; * 1928 in Baghdad ; †  1977 ) was an Iraqi politician. He was General Secretary of the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath Party from the late 1950s until the November 18, 1963 military coup . From February 8, 1963 ( Ramadan Revolution ) to the military coup of November 18, 1963, he was Vice Prime Minister under Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr , Minister of the Interior and as commander of the National Guard (Al-Hars al-Qawmi) responsible for a massacre. With partisan maneuvers he wanted to replace Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr as prime minister, which provoked the military coup of November 18, 1963 and removed the Ba'ath party from power in Iraq.

Career

Ali Salih as-Sa'di was born into an Arab-Kurdish family. In 1955, he graduated in economics at the University of Baghdad , and joined the Baath Party one. On July 14, 1958, the military overthrew Abd al-Karim Qasim and the Iraqi Communist Party Faisal II. Prominent members of the Ba'ath Party practiced vicious opposition to Abd al-Karim Qasim, forcing them into exile. In October 1959, Saddam Hussein injured his leg in an assassination attempt on Abd al-Karim Qasim and went into exile via Syria to Cairo. Ali Salih as-Sa'di remained in Baghdad as general secretary of the Iraqi branch of the Ba'ath party and is considered to be the architect of the overthrow of Abd al-Karim Qasim, a takeover to which he later admitted:

"We came to power on a CIA train."

- Ali Saleh Al Sa'adi.

CIA complicity

The National Security Agency compiled a list of alleged communists, which the Central Intelligence Agency , intelligence service of John F. Kennedy , represented by John McCone , represented by the Middle East Department, James Hardesty Crichtfield gave the Iraqi regime as a hit list.

Between 300 and 5,000 Communist sympathizers were killed in street fighting in Baghdad.

Party political maneuvers

In October 1963 al-Sa'di operated at the All-Arab Sixth Party Congress (National Congress) of the Ba'ath Party in Damascus to vote out the founding fathers Michel Aflaq and Salah ad-Din al-Bitar . On November 11th, al-Sa'di and his supporters convened an "extraordinary party conference" to expel Prime Minister Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and other rivals from the party. Ba'ath officers loyal to Bakr arrested them, whereupon the al-Sa'di confidante Wandawi, deposed (but not resigned) chief of the National Guard, bombed targets in Baghdad and raged in the capital for five days. Hassan al-Bakr called on President Abd al-Sallam Arif , who was purely representative in himself and who, as commander-in-chief of the army , restored peace and order with the military coup of November 18, 1963 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sa'id K. Aburish, A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite , New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998
  2. ^ Karen M Paget, Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story, p. 287 in Google Book Search
  3. ↑ Ariel Ira Ahram, Proxy Warriors: The Rise and Fall of State-Sponsored Militias, p. 76 in the Google book search
  4. ↑ Beth K. Dougherty, Edmund A. Ghareeb, Historical Dictionary of Iraq, p. 516 in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Sa'di, Ali Salih as-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad
DATE OF DEATH 1977
Place of death Iraq