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...High Gear. Leading the rebellious Kurds is veteran pro-Communist Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) and military boss of a Red-supported puppet republic of Kurdistan just after the war. After the puppet state was dismantled in 1946. Barzani fled to Russia, returned only after Kassem staged his Communist-blessed revolution in Iraq in 1958. Kassem tried to curry favor among the Kurdish tribes to solidify his own power. He promised them Kurdish schools, Kurdish newspapers, a Kurdish political party. So that the Kurds would not get too strong, however, Kassem armed rival Kurdish clans, playing them...
...Arab states, as opposed to a Nasser-led united Arab nation. Their best bet is now Iraq. They have two Communist parties at work there. One calls itself Shorsh, and works among the 1,000,000 Kurds in Iraq. It is led by the fabled Mullah Mustafa el Barzani. who returned from Russia last October to take command of the party's 2,000 members, and of the so-called Kurdish "army of liberation." pledged to carve a national home for 5,000,000 Kurds out of Turkish, Iranian and Iraqi territory...
...affairs. Nuritdin Akramovich Mukhitdinov, 41, a Moslem from Tashkent who last year was promoted to the ruling Soviet Presidium, is its youngest member and only Moslem. Shortly after Mukhitdinov had four sessions with Nasser, Syrian Communist Chief Khaled Bakdash returned from exile in Eastern Europe to Damascus, and Mustafa Barzani, famed Kurdish rebel long harbored in Soviet exile, arrived back in Iraq. The Kurds (whose great leader in the time of the Crusades was Saladin) are a volatile minority of 5,000,000, spread across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and southern Russia. Openly defying Nasser's ban on party...
...Barzani's army is the result of years of careful, dogged Communist organization among the Kurds, begun almost immediately after the Russian Revolution. On the eve of World War II, G.P.U. agents were busily signing dozens of secret treaties with Kurdish chieftains. In 1942 after the Russians had occupied northern Iran, the Reds went to work on a plan for an "independent" Kurdish nation. They took a group of Kurdish 'chieftains from Iran and Iraq to Baku for a royal round of banquets and ballets. A Russian agent got wind of a secret patriotic organization called the Committee...
...puppet state was squashed within a year by the Persian army, which marched into Mehabad and hanged its president to a flagpole. But the "People's Republic" left several legacies, including General Barzani, who had headed the puppet state's army and managed to fight his way back to Russia. I asked a Kurdish officer serving in the Iraq army what would happen if Barzani's men came down across the border, calling on the Kurds to arise and unite. He answered: "Any Kurd-and I am proud to call myself one-would have a hard time...