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Question: Which of the following brutal dictators did Saddam like comparing himself to and saw as an idol?
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Correct Answer Saddam loved Stalin as he based his own evil regime on the Soviet Union's government during the time when Stalin ruled. The two men never met, but oddly enough they look very similar, particularly with the moustache.
Question: In 1980 Saddam launched the Iran-Iraq War which was to last eight years and cost the lives of 400,000 Iraqis. (mainly soldiers). How many Iranians were killed in this conflict?
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Correct Answer When Saddam launched this war for the territory, he thought it would be quick and easy as he thought the Iranians were weak. Soon things got so bad for the Iraqi invasion that Saddam decided to start gassing thousands of Iranian soldiers.
Question: In which of these towns did Saddam's cousin, 'Chemical Ali,' gas thousands of Kurds?
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Correct Answer The most famous incident was Halabja but there were other gassings. There were gassings in the Balisan valley, there were gassings along the Iranian border in the area of the Balak valley, there were gassings along the Turkish border where over 100,000 Iraqi Kurds fled to Turkey even prior to the Gulf War where they lived in terrible conditions and camps where they weren't in fact recognise as refugees.
Question: Saddam Hussein was head of the Ba'ath Party who ran Iraq. The official full name of his party was the Arab Ba'ath ____ Party. Which word has been replaced by the blank?
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Correct Answer Although Saddam's tyranical regime would not be described by many as socialist (fascist would be a better description), the Ba'ath Party did in the past initiate pseudo-socialist projects by the building of schools and hospitals. Many political groups have used the term socialist in their title and been anything but so. For example the National Socialists (Nazis) hated Marxism, but included the term socialist in order to trick left-wingers into supporting them.
Question: At the age of 20, Saddam joined which movement whose goal was to unite all Arabs in one nation?
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Correct Answer Saddam joined the Ba'ath Party as Vice President after a successful coup in 1968. The Populist Socialist Party (1951) and the Jaffar Pasha (1923) were two of hundreds of populist movements in the arab world. Al Qaida is a relatively young movement, created by Osama Bin Laden in the late 1980’s initially to bring Arabs together to fight against the Soviet Union occupation in Afghanistan.
Question: In what year was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated?
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Correct Answer Gandhi was shot and killed by Nathurum Vinayak Godse, a Hindu fanatic who was opposed to the partition of India into the nations of India and Pakistan.
Question: An Indian social and political leader was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist. Who was he?
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Correct Answer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Gujarat, India in 1869. Named Mahatma (Great Soul), he studied law in London and spent many years in South Afica. Both Indira and Rajiv Gandhi were also assassinated (in 1984 and 1991 respectively). Indira's son, Sanjay, died in a flying accident.
Question: Yigal Amir assassinated this political leader...?
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Correct Answer Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995, while attending a rally to celebrate the signing of the Oslo Accords which established the Palestinian Authority. His assassin, Yigal Amir, was a right-wing Israeli activist who obviously felt that the Accords were nothing to celebrate! Rabin was the first of Israel's prime ministers to be born in Israel, and was the only PM to be assassinated and the second PM to die while in office. His death is seen by many to have stymied the hope for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and while Rabin is very much a hero of the Israeli left, his assassination initiated the rise to power of the Israeli right. In 1978, Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David peace agreement with Israeli PM Menachem Begin, which was brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Egypt became the first Arab state to recognize Israel's right to exist. This action resulted in the expulsion of Egypt from the Arab League (boy, he should have seen that one coming!), which straightway moved its headquarters from Cairo to Tehran. (Egypt was re-instated in the League in 1989). A fatwa on Sadat was issued by Omar Abdel-Rahman, a radical Muslim cleric, who was later convicted for his part in the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York. Sadat was assassinated on October 6, 1981, by a group of Egyptian Army soldiers who were members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization. The assassination took place during a parade which Sadat was reviewing. Olaf (or Olof - spellings differ) was the Prime Minister of Sweden who was gunned down on February 28, 1986 as he and his wife walked home from the movies. Mrs. Palme was treated and survived her wounds, but the Prime Minister was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The murder remains unsolved. India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi met her end in the garden of her home on October 31, 1984, when she was shot 16 times by two of her Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for her decision to send in troops to storm the Golden Temple of Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine, in order to flush out the Sikh separatists who were using the temple as their headquarters. In hindsight, maybe having Sikh bodyguards probably wasn't a good idea.
