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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]], [[Alawite State]], [[French Syria]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1993|8|19|1926}}
| death_place = [[Mezzeh prison]], [[Damascus]],
| 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
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| 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
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| 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)
| battles = [[First Arab-Israeli War]]<br />[[Six-Day War]]
}}
'''Salah Jadid''' (
==Early life and career==
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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 were only four members of the Military Committee, the others were [[Hafez al-Assad]], [[Abd al-Karim al-Jundi]] and [[Muhammad Umran]].{{sfn|Moubayed|2006|p=260}} The Military Committee also tried to save the Syrian Ba'ath movement from annihilation. Committee members were among those who blamed Aflaq for the Ba'ath Party's failing during the UAR years.{{sfn|Seale|1990|pp=61–62}} The party's Third National Congress in 1959 supported Aflaq's decision to dissolve the party, but a 1960 National Congress, in which Jadid was a delegate representing the then-unknown Military Committee, reversed the decision and called for the Ba'ath Party's reestablishment. The Congress also decided to improve relations with Nasser by democratising the UAR from within. A faction within the party, led by al-Hawrani, called for Syria's secession.{{sfn|Seale|1990|p=66}} The Military Committee did not succeed in its aims, and in September 1961 the UAR was dissolved. [[Nazim al-Kudsi]], who led the first post-UAR government, persecuted Jadid and the others for their Nasserite loyalties, and all of them were forced to retire from the Syrian Army.{{sfn|Moubayed|2006|p=260}}
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
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 ==References==
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