. "Iraqi Regional Branchof theArab Socialist Ba'ath Party" . "*Iraqi Army" . "The 17 July Revolution was a bloodless coup in Iraq in 1968, led by General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, which brought the Iraqi Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power. Both Saddam Hussein, later President of Iraq, and Salah Omar al-Ali, later a Ba'athist dissident, were major participants in the coup. According to historian Charles R. H. Tripp, the coup upset the \"US-sponsored security system established as part of the Cold War in the Middle East."@en . "July 1968 Iraqi coup d'\u00E9tat"@en . . . "Overthrow ofAbdul Rahman Arif" . . . "*Iraqi Navy" . "Iraqi government" . . . "*Iraqi Air Force" . "Establishment ofBaathist government" . "Iraqi Armed Forces" . "1968-07-17Z"^^ . . .