Word: assaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision had been implicit from the beginning, in the revolt that toppled the throne, killed the King and his pro-Western Premier, Nuri asSaid, and brought Kassem's army clique to power last July. The timing was what counted...
...pacts and neutralizing the area, and so creating what Leninists call a "zone of peace"; 2) the ultimate, but much more ambitious aim, of turning the Middle East into a "zone of socialism." Last summer's sudden overturn of the pro-Western regime of King Feisal and Nuri asSaid in Iraq radically changed Russian aspirations. An Iraqi Communist Party emerged intact from Nuri's jails and from underground and successfully joined with Kassem in opposing the merger of Iraq and the U.A.R. on Nasser's terms. Communism and Nasserism became locked in conflict...
...dropped all pretense of soldierly comradeship with Kassem and attacked him in person as a man who fights against Arab unity. Punning on Kassem's name, which in Arabic means "splitter," he shouted that "Iraq's splitter" had fought Arab brotherhood more viciously than the hated Nuri asSaid himself. Iraqi planes, firing on the thousands of defeated rebels and tribesmen fleeing for their lives, had bombed a Syrian border village. His own air force, Nasser said righteously, could have retaliated with blows twice as strong but refrained "because the villages we would have hit are Arab villages...
...patriots who believe that Nasser wants to end Iraq's independence. Kassem, a politically unsophisticated soldier, is not generally regarded as Communist-although, as British Journalist Michael Adams points out, it could be risky to underestimate Kassem's powers of dissimulation, since he fooled the wary Nuri asSaid for all those years...
Kassem was amiable but hardly contrite. Over cigarettes and coffee he explained that "the people here are free to demonstrate their feelings," insisted they had nothing against Rountree personally but were simply expressing resentment of the U.S. built up over the years of the Nuri asSaid regime, which came to a bloody ending last summer. In turn, Rountree said the U.S. wanted friendly relations with Iraq and hoped that greater mutual confidence could be created. After exchanging platitudes for 90 minutes, Rountree left. Kassem's next visitor was the Soviet ambassador, who spent 45 minutes with the general...