Abdul Karim Kassem

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Time trip.(Saddam Hussein)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/19/2003; 290 words ; ...he joined a Baath plot to kill Iraq's leader, Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem. The plot failed. The other rebels were executed, but...to Syria. He later went into exile in Egypt. * When Kassem was murdered in 1963, Saddam returned to Iraq. By 1968... Read more
War zone: questions and answers about the war.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 4/25/2003; 700+ words ; ...under one government. In the 1950s, he joined a Baath plot to kill Iraq's leader, Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem. The plot failed, and Saddam went into exile. When Kassem was murdered in 1963, Saddam returned to Iraq. By 1968, he was the second-most important... Read more
Suddenly Saddam: U.S. shifts focus to `Baghdad's bad boy'.(Saddam Hussein)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/20/2002; 700+ words ; ...he joined a Baath plot to kill Iraq's leader, Gen. Abdul-Karim Kassem. The plot failed. The other rebels were executed, but...later went into exile in Egypt. Following the murder of Kassem in 1963, Saddam returned to Iraq. By 1968, he was the... Read more

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