Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today, O my brothers," he shouted, "we are stronger than ever before. Arab unity has been unchained. The same flag of freedom that flies over Baghdad today will be hoisted in Amman and Beirut just as it rose in every corner of the Arab world." Then, with U.S. marines barely 50 miles away, he said: "If we see today that America occupies Lebanon and Britain occupies Jordan, then I say: If they call for peace, we are for it. But if they are hostile toward us, we shall fight to the last drop of our blood. We shall...
...longer a peaceful balance of tensions in the Middle East: Nasser was moving toward absolute domination. Had there been any real manifestation of substantial internal resistance to the coup in Iraq, the U.S. and Britain were in position, if not necessarily in the mood, to roll right on to Baghdad. The West had now lost its strongest bastion in the Middle East, and even more humiliating, by but three assassinations. For the first time in history, the U.S. was ashore in the Middle East, and this very fact had wide implications. The U.S. was committed to preserve the independence...
...cousin King Feisal had been killed, his country's union with Iraq shattered by the Baghdad revolt. His own throne was in jeopardy, his own life in danger. At a critical moment when he still had no pledge of outside help and no firm assurance that his own troops would remain loyal, King Hussein I, a 22-year-old boy turned man, chose to hang on and to fight back. For sheer pluck and determination, no man in the Middle East surpassed him last week...
...revolt burst on Iraq at 5 o'clock Monday morning. Major General Abdul Kareem el-Kassim, 42, who had been ordered to lead his men into Jordan to bolster King Hussein against a coup, led them instead into sleeping Baghdad. Silently, and without firing a shot, his soldiers took over the key points of the city. One by one the railroad station, the main intersections, the post and telegraph offices and the radio station were surrounded. By the time the troops began heading for the palace of 23-year-old King Feisal, an excited mob was at their heels...
...unsuspecting young King and his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, 46, were getting ready to fly to Istanbul for an emergency meeting of the Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact. Seeing the gathering crowd, they went outside the palace. According to the rebels, the palace guard fired into the crowd, killed 14. The soldiers returned the fire. Feisal was killed, along with Crown Prince Abdul Illah, the Crown Prince's mother, two nurses and two palace guardsmen...