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 in order to help the PLO. This action was not supported by Assad's [[right-wing politics|right-wing]] Ba'ath faction, and the troops withdrew. The action helped trigger the simmering conflict between Jadid's and Assad's wings of the Ba'ath Party and army. The [[Syrian Communist Party]] aligned itself with Salah Jadid. The Soviet ambassador, [[Nuritdin Mukhitdinov]] was drawn in the power struggle. Hafez al-Assad was angered by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] influence in Syrian politics, so he 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&pg=PA40&dqq=mustafa+talas+red+book#v=onepage&qpg=mustafa%20talas%20red%20book&f=falsePA40|title=Moscow and the Middle East: Soviet policy since the invasion of Afghanistan|author=Robert Owen Freedman|year=1991|publisher=CUP Archive|location=|isbn=0-521-35976-7|page=40|accessdate=28 June 2010}}</ref> In November 1970, Jadid tried to fire Assad and his supporter [[Mustafa Tlass]], to which Assad responded by launching an intra-party coup against Jadid, dubbed the [[Corrective Movement (Syria)|Corrective Movement]]. Jadid was arrested on 13 November 1970, and remained in the [[Mezzeh prison]] in [[Damascus]] until his death,<ref name=obibulloch/> while al-Assad would remain in power until his death in 2000. Jadid died of a heart attack in a hospital 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|accessdate=7 April 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 August 1993}}</ref>