Word: askaris
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...embassy questions the Pasha's honesty. Syrian and Egyptian broadcasters have shouted "Traitor" and "Satan," denounced him as a stooge of the British and an Ottoman-style tyrant. He pays no heed. Every Iraqi knows how a half-century ago Nuri leagued with the Arab Patriot Jafar al-Askari to conspire against the Ottoman Turks, then fought on camelback for Emir Feisal in World War I's revolt in the Arabian desert...
...Covenanter. Commissioned a sublieutenant, Nuri rode back to Baghdad, slim, handsome in the mustache sprouted in Constantinople, and fiercely proud of his uniform. He became a platoon commander at a Persian border town, and fell in with Jafar al-Askari, a husky, bull-necked Arab a few years his senior. The two became fast friends, and in 1910, as one member of the family puts it, "they gave each other their sisters." Though in accordance with Arab custom Nuri was not introduced to his bride Naima till the wedding day, Jafar arranged for her to catch a glimpse of Nuri...
Despite the rainy season and heavy British air raids on their bases, the Italians attacked at four places along their 2,000-mile fiunt from the Red Sea to the Indiaa Ocean. On July 5, with artillery, bombing; planes, tanks and 3,000 Askari troops they assailed and took Kassala. Railhead for the line to Port Sudan, Kassala is the eastern gateway (Khartoum the western) for the Sudan's rich cotton plantations. It commands the valley of the Atbara River, a Nile tributary down which an army would move to strike at Egypt and Suez from the south. Last...
...Middle East concentrated last week on Italy's Libyan and Eritrean bases, while South African bombers attacked in southern Ethiopia and Jubaland. Patrols of Lieut. General Henry Maitland Wilson's Egyptian command (40,000 strong) took two Italian forts and 200 askari prisoners on the Libyan border...
...only last October swashbuckling General Sidki organized a putsch, sent a flight of bombing planes circling over Bagdad, forced young, dreamy-eyed King Ghazi to install a puppet Premier (TIME, Nov. 9), and proceeded to consolidate his own power by instigating the assassination of General Jafar Pasha el Askari, the Defense Minister...