Salah Jadid

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Salah Jadid (1926? - 1993) was a Syrian general and political figure in the Ba'th Party. He was the de facto head of government of Syria from 1966 until he was deposed in 1970.

Under Jadid's rule, Syria firmly aligned itself with the Soviet bloc. Domestically, Jadid attempted a socialist reformation of Syrian society, but public support for his regime declined following Syria's defeat in the 1967 Six Day War, when Israel conquered the Golan Heights.

In 1970, when conflict erupted between the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Jordanian army, Jadid sent Syrian-controlled Palestinian troops of the nominally PLO-run Palestinian Liberation Army, based in Syria, into Jordan in order to help the PLO. This action was not supported by a more pragmatic Ba'th faction under the control of Defence Minister Hafez al-Assad. This led to al-Assad launching an intra-party coup against Jadid, dubbed The Corrective Revolution. Jadid was deposed and arrested. He was eventually released from prison in 1983, but remained ostracized until his death.

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