GET OUR AWESOME NEW POSTER! http://bit.ly/13GPNM4 Declassified documents reveal that the US helped Iraq use chemical warfare against Iran during the Reagan administration. Our Sources: http://atfp.co/1fcNy4D More stories at: http://www.sourcefed.com or check out: http://youtube.com/sourcefed for our 5 daily videos or anything else we've ever done. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sourcefed Follow us on Tumblr: http://sourcefed.tumblr.com/ Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/xQDV8M Philly D OFFICIAL APP for instant updates: http://bit.ly/aIyY0w Get your SourceFed Posters here: http://bit.ly/SourceFedPosters P.O. Box address: Attn: SourceFed 6433 Topanga Canyon Blvd #805 The @SourceFed Hosts: @joebereta @elliottcmorgan Music: @ronaldjenkees @Hagemeister Iraq War video is blocked in these locations: Germany. Read Me War Viewer discretion is advised. Turning Point Resistance This video is made for non-profit fair use for the purposes such as education, research, criticism, comments, and news reporting. Omar Bashir - Cradle Sound Of CIVILISATION R.I.P Abd al-Karim Qasim & Malcom X US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meeting Saddam Hussein on 19-20 December 1982-83. Rumsfeld, who supported Hussein in the 80's, led the coalition forces later In 2003 against him .. CIA activities in Iraq Saddam Hussein in Cairo after fleeing there following the failed assassination attempt against Qassim, Iraq was then regarded as a key buffer and strategic asset in the Cold War with the Soviet Union. In the mid-1950s, Iraq was quick to join the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact which was to defend the region and whose members included Turkey, Britain, Iran and Pakistan. Qassim's sudden decision to withdraw from the pact in 1959 was an act that "freaked everybody out" according to a former senior U.S. State Department official Hussein, while only in his early 20s, became a part of a U.S. plot to get rid of Abd al-Karim Qasim. Hussein was installed in an apartment in Baghdad on al-Rashid Street directly opposite Qassim's office in Iraq's Ministry of Defense, to observe Qassim's movements. The move was done with full knowledge of the CIA, and Hussein's CIA handler was an Iraqi dentist working for CIA and Egyptian intelligence..The assassination was set for Oct. 7, 1959, but it was completely botched; the 22-year-old Hussein lost his nerve and began firing too soon, killing Qassim's driver and only wounding Qassim in the shoulder and arm, Qassim escaped death. Hussein was shot in the leg, but escaped to Tikrit with the help of CIA and Egyptian intelligence agents. Hussein then crossed into Syria and was transferred by Egyptian intelligence agents to Beirut, the CIA paid for Hussein's apartment and put him through a brief training course, the agency then helped him get to Cairo, where he made frequent visits to the American embassy. During this time the CIA placed him in an upper-class apartment observed by CIA and Egyptian operatives. In February 1963 Qassim was killed in a Baath Party coup. Provided with information by the CIA, the Baath Party hunted down suspected communists. They then jailed, interrogated, and summarily gunned them down. Many suspected communists were killed outright. An exact toll is not known, but accounts indicate that among the victims were hundreds of doctors, teachers, technicians, lawyers, and other professionals. These numbers also include military and political figures. Saddam Hussein himself was said to have participated in the killings There was an exchange of information between the Ba'ath and the CIA for the first time, the United States was able to get models of certain Mig fighters and tanks made in the Soviet Union. That was what the Ba'ath had to offer the United States in return for their help in eliminating Qassim The United States also sent arms to the new regime, weapons later used against the same Kurdish insurgents the United States had backed against Qassim and then abandoned. Soon, Western corporations like Mobil, British Petroleum were doing business with Baghdad for American firms, their first major involvement in Iraq The CIA however claims that the assertion that Saddam once received payments from the CIA was utterly ridiculous In 1979, Hussein formally assumed the presidency when al-Bakr turned over the reins of power to his ambitious protégé..Hussein made a visit to Amman in the year 1979, before the Iran--Iraq War, where he met three senior CIA agents. He discussed with them his plans to invade Iran..In 1980, Iraq started the war with a blitzkrieg attack. The tide had turned by 1982 in favor of much larger Iran, and the Reagan administration was afraid Iraq might lose. Reagan chose Donald Rumsfeld as his emissary to Hussein, whom he visited in December 1983 and March 1984.After the visit, the Reagan administration offered Hussein financial credits that eventually made Iraq the third-largest recipient of US assistance. The CIA and DIA relation with Hussein intensified. The CIA

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