Salah Jadid: Difference between revisions

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>