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    Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

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  1. Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979.He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and later the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region (the Ba'ath Party's Iraqi branch), which espoused Ba'athism, a mix ...

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  2. Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and later the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism.

  3. Oct 5, 1982 · Former President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr died today, Baghdad television announced. He was 68 years old. Mr. Bakr was President from 1968 until 1979, when he was replaced by Saddam Hussein, who still ...

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  5. The 17 July Revolution ( Arabic: انقلاب 17 تموز, romanized : inqilāb 17 Tammūz) was a bloodless coup in Iraq in 1968 led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, and Abd ar-Rahman al-Dawud that ousted President Abdul Rahman Arif and Prime Minister Tahir Yahya and brought the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath ...

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  6. Mar 14, 2003 · But it wasn't long before there was infighting among Iraq's new rulers. In 1968, after yet another coup, the Baathist general Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr seized control, bringing to the threshold of ...

  7. 17 July Revolution. Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr was the President of Iraq from 17 July 1968 to 16 July 1979. He was born in Tikrit, Ottoman Iraq on 1 July 1914. He was a member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party. During his rule Iraq had high economic growth due to high international oil prices.

  8. Oct 5, 1982 · ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Former Iraqi president Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakr, who died Monday after a prolonged illness, was buried in Baghdad Tuesday in a state funeral, the Iraqi news agency ...

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