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Transcript: Interview: Charles Tripp discusses Saddam Hussein's rise to power and how Iraq should be governed in the event that the US goes to war with Iraq
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- February 13, 2003
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Interview: Charles Tripp discusses Saddam Hussein's rise to power and
how Iraq should be governed in the event that the US goes to war with
Iraq
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Saddam Hussein has been the most powerful man in Iraq for three decades.
Charles Tripp is author of "The History of Iraq," and a professor
of Near and Middle Eastern studies at the University of London. He
says Saddam Hussein rose to power using a family connection.
Professor CHARLES TRIPP (University of London): His relative, Ahmad
Hassan al-Bakr, president of Iraq, came to power himself in 1968 in
a coup d'etat, and it was thanks to ...