Ahmad Hassan Al-Bakr
Ahmad Hassan Al-Bakr , or Hassan Ahmed Al-Bakr , born in 1912, died in 1982, he was president of the Republic of Iraq of 1968 with 1979.
Soldier and member of the Left Baath, it helps the general Kassem to seize the power in 1958. But, victim as many other members of its party of the repression which starts in 1959, it must leave the army and live in clandestinity, until the inversion of Kassem (February 1963). He becomes then Prime Minister for the marshal Aref, then president of the Republic in July 1968 following a coup d'etat.
In foreign politics, he is opposed immediately to the the United States, in particular by carrying out those which he shows to be agents of the imperialism américano-Zionist . He approaches on the other hand to the France and the the USSR. In interior policy it grants a broad autonomy to the Kurdish (1969), but refuses to make Kurdistan an autonomous province. It releases from many political prisoners, recognizes officially the Iraqi Communist party (1972) and nationalizes the IPC ( Iraq Petroleum Company ).
Al-Bakr is quickly confronted with the rise to power of its vice-president Saddam Hussein, who gradually takes the control of all the control sticks of the state. He resigns in 1979, officially for health reasons, and is replaced with the head of Iraq by Saddam Hussein.
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