1. Why did Saddam Hussein attempt to develop WMD?
... 1963 another coup ended Qasim rule. The nationalist Baath party led by Ahmad al-Bakr took over rule of Iraq. Saddam was invited to return to Iraq, but the al-Bakr government did not last and Saddam was briefly jailed. By 1968 the Baath party had resumed power and ... the US, Britain, and the Gulf Arabs in a foolish attempt to overthrow its new Islamic government and return the oil-rich nation to western control. Washington and London secretly financed and armed Iraq, providing technicians and materials to produce poison gas and germ warfare weapons. Two years after the stalemated ... for...
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