Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cried Iraqi's Education Minister Jabir Ummar at Nasser's "Revolution Day" rally: "Brothers, having wiped disgrace from its face and cleansed its defilement by agents with pieces of their bodies in Baghdad's streets, we come to you with our new Arab Iraqi revolution." The Baghdad radio called on Jordanians to "rise up and kill Hussein." And the reply of Hussein's Amman radio was to ask Iraqis: "Why have you not avenged the innocent blood shed in Baghdad? Would you leave the honor of revenge for others? What is the use of living...
India recognized the new regime in Baghdad, but Prime Minister Nehru was repelled by the bloodthirsty manner in which it came to power. Nehru-who is no lover of Nasser-was reported disturbed by Nasser's maneuvers to cast his net over the entire Middle East, for the Middle East is India's lifeline to the West...
...body of Nuri's son Sabah was dragged through the streets by a mob waving knives and portraits of Egypt's Nasser. And from his bed in Amman, 36-year-old British-trained General Sadiq Shara recited the gruesome events that took place around the swank New Baghdad Hotel...
Trying to live down the blood bath, the new government sent soldiers all over Baghdad with green paint to erase extremist anti-Western slogans. Photographs of violence (including pictures of the naked corpse of the Crown Prince hanging footless from a post, and the dismembered body of Premier Nuri being dragged through the streets) disappeared from shops. Strict orders were issued to the public against molesting foreigners. The violently anti-Western newspaper Al-Bilad was told to stop its inflammatory editorials; the radio kept issuing reassuring reports on the oil industry, whose refineries went on producing and whose foreign technicians...
Pakistan. Though the nation's leaders were sticking by the Baghdad Pact, newspapers and public opinion showed quite an admiration for Nasser. The influential Karachi newspaper Dawn commented: "A brother with whom we may have fallen out is still a brother and nearer to us than a stranger...