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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Salah Jadid
| native_name = {{Lang|ar|{{Script/Arabic|صلاح جديد}}|rtl=yes}}
| image = Salah Jadid, the Baath Party strongman during the years 1966-1970.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth year|1926}}
| birth_place = [[Dweir Baabda]], [[
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1993|8|19|1926}}
| death_place = [[Mezzeh prison]], [[Damascus]], Syria
| office = [[Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region#Heads and bureaus|Assistant Regional Secretary]]<br>of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] | term_start = 1 August 1965
| term_end = 13 November 1970
| predecessor = Muhammad az-Zubi
| successor = Jaber Bajbouj
| 1blankname = Regional Secretary
| 1namedata = [[Amin al-Hafiz]]<br>[[Nureddin al-Atassi]]
| office2 = [[Chief of the General Staff (Syria)|Chief of Staff]] of the [[Syrian Army]]
| term_start2 = 11 November 1963
| term_end2 = 1966
| predecessor2 = [[Ziad al-Hariri]]
| successor2 =
| office3 = Member of the [[Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Regional Command]]<br>of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]]
| term_start3 = March 1966
| term_end3 = 13 November 1970
| term_start4 = 1 February 1964
| term_end4 = 19 December 1965
| party = [[Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)|Ba'ath Party (Syrian)]] [[Ba'ath Party|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] (1947–1966)
| rank = [[File:Syria-Army-Liwa.svg|40px]] [[Major general|Major General]]
| serviceyears = 1946–1970
| nationality =
| allegiance = [[file:Syria-flag 1932-58 1961-63.svg|25px]] [[First Syrian Republic]] (1946–1950)<br />[[file:Syria-flag 1932-58 1961-63.svg|25px]] [[Second Syrian Republic]] (1950–1958; 1961–63)<br/>{{Flag|United Arab Republic}} (1958–1961)<br />{{flag|Syria}} (1963–1970)
'''Salah Jadid''' (1926 – 19 August 1993, {{lang-ar|صلاح جديد}}) was a [[Syria]]n [[General officer|general]], a leader of the left-wing of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Syria]], and the country's ''de facto'' leader from 1966 until 1970, when he was ousted by [[Hafez al-Assad]]'s [[Corrective Movement (Syria)|Corrective Movement]].▼
| battles = [[First Arab-Israeli War]]<br />[[Six-Day War]]
}}
▲'''Salah Jadid''' (
==Early life and career==
Jadid was born in 1926 in the village of [[Dweir Baabda]], near the coastal city of [[Jableh]],{{sfn|Seale|1990|p=63}} to
During the UAR-era, Jadid was stationed in [[Cairo]], Egypt. Jadid established the Military Committee alongside other Ba'athists in 1959. The chief aim of the Military Committee was to protect the UAR's existence. In the beginning there
In 1963 Jadid was promoted from [[Lieutenant colonel]] to [[Major general]] and named [[Chief of the General Staff (Syria)|Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces]] of Syria.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press|date=1993-08-24|title=Salah Jadid, 63, Leader of Syria Deposed and Imprisoned by Assad (Published 1993)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/24/obituaries/salah-jadid-63-leader-of-syria-deposed-and-imprisoned-by-assad.html
==Downfall and death==▼
In 1970, when [[Black September|conflict]] erupted between the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) and the [[Jordanian Armed Forces|Jordanian army]], Jadid sent Syrian-controlled [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] troops of the nominally PLO-run [[Palestine Liberation Army]], based in Syria, into Jordan to aid the PLO. This decision was not supported by Assad's more moderate Ba'ath faction, and the troops withdrew.
▲==Downfall and death==
▲In 1970, when [[Black September|conflict]] erupted between the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) and the [[Jordanian Armed Forces|Jordanian army]], Jadid sent Syrian-controlled [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] troops of the nominally PLO-run [[Palestine Liberation Army]], based in Syria, into Jordan to aid the PLO. This decision was not supported by Assad's [[right-wing politics|right-wing]] Ba'ath faction, and the troops withdrew. The action helped trigger a simmering conflict between Jadid's and Assad's factions within the Ba'ath Party and army. The [[Syrian Communist Party]] aligned itself with Jadid, drawing him the support of Soviet ambassador, [[Nuritdin Mukhitdinov]]. Angered by this, Assad decided to scare the Soviets by sending [[Mustafa Tlass]] to [[Beijing]] to procure arms and wave [[Mao Zedong|Chairman Mao]]'s [[Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung|Little Red Book]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6zk7AAAAIAAJ&q=mustafa+talas+red+book&pg=PA40|title=Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet policy since the invasion of Afghanistan|author=Robert Owen Freedman|year=1991|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=0-521-35976-7|page=40|access-date=28 June 2010}}</ref> In November 1970, Jadid tried to fire Assad and his supporter [[Mustafa Tlass]]. Assad responded by launching an intra-party coup dubbed, the [[Corrective Movement (Syria)|Corrective Movement]]. Jadid was arrested on 13 November 1970, and remained in the [[Mezzeh prison]] in [[Damascus]] until dying from a heart attack on 19 August 1993.<ref name=nyt24aug>{{cite news|title=Salah Jadid, 63, Leader of Syria Deposed and Imprisoned by Assad|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/24/obituaries/salah-jadid-63-leader-of-syria-deposed-and-imprisoned-by-assad.html|access-date=7 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 August 1993}}</ref>
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