1959

On October 7, 1959, an attempt on the life of Iraqi dictator Abd al-Karim Qasim was made by assassins sent by the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, allegedly with backing from Gamal Abdel Nasser. Among the assassins was a young man named Saddam Hussein. While Saddam was shot in the assassination attempt, the...

In 1959, Saddam and others of the Ba'ath Party tried, and failed to kill Abd al-Karim Qasim, and the rest is history as we know it as Saddam fled to Egypt. But what if Saddam Hussein had been killed in 1959? What would be the fate of Iraq, and the Middle East in the years to come without Saddam?