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Article: AS WAR FADES, A POWERFUL HUSSEIN FEARED
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 7, 1988
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In one of the sudden, dramatic twists of
fortune that are common in the Middle East, President Saddam
Hussein of Iraq stands on the verge of emerging from the Persian
Gulf war as the victorious defender of his Arab nation.
Hussein has withstood the onslaught of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, Iran's charismatic spiritual leader, for eight years.
Khomeini viewed Hussein's attack on Iran in September 1980 as
nothing short of an attack on Islam itself.
Khomeini turned the bloody war into a personal vendetta, of
which the oft-repeated objective was the overthrow and trial of
"the infidel" Hussein. The elimination of the secular Arab
Socialist Baath Party's rule in Iraq ...