Word: basra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This month Regent Prince Abdul Illah went on vacation to Basra after the Parliament recessed. Hardly had he left Bagdad when things began...
Fulminating in Basra, Prince Abdul IIlah's first thought was to appeal to the benevolently watchful British Government. To all Iraq, and most particularly London and Cairo, the Regent broadcast word that El-Gailani and a small group of Army officers had been seduced by Axis fifth columnists,* were trying to separate Britain from 4,000,000 tons of oil per annum and the all-important friendship of the Arab world...
...despair, Prince Abdul Illah tried the last shot in his locker, a counter-coup which was promptly squelched by the Basra garrison, then lit out for the sanctuary of Trans-Jordan in an R.A.F. plane...