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Directorate of Intelligence
16 March 1991
Iraq: Implications of I urrection and
Prospects for Saddam sSurvival
Summary
Saddam Husayn faces his most serious political challenge in more
than twenty years of power. He and his regime are confronted by
economic chaos, armed insurrection, the prospect of widespread
civil war, and foreign intervention. His immediate plight may ease
somewhat with suppression of the insurrection in the south and a
relaxation of the UN-imposed embargo, but the Kurdish rebellion