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| 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)]]
| rank = [[File:Syria-Army-Liwa.svg|40px]]
| 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 an [[Alawites|Alawite]] family of the Haddadin tribe.{{sfn|Tucker|Roberts|2008|p=535}} However, there is another report stating his birth year as 1924.<ref name=obibulloch>{{cite news|last=Bulloch|first=John|title=Obituary: Salah Jadid|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-salah-jadid-1462907.html|
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|access-date=2021-02-23|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
==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
The action helped trigger ==References==
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*{{cite book|author=Moubayed, Sami M.|ref=CITEREFMoubayed2006|title=Steel & Silk: Men and Women who shaped Syria 1900–2000|publisher= Cune Press|year=2006|isbn=978-1-885942-41-8}}
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*{{cite book|author1=Tucker, Spencer |author2=Roberts, Priscilla Mary |ref=CITEREFTuckerRoberts2008|title=The encyclopedia of the Arab–Israeli conflict: a Political, Social, and Military History: A–F|volume=1|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|year=2008|isbn=978-1-85109-841-5}}
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