Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iraq's answer was that the two men had been fairly tried, in a three-month trial. Five other Jews got five-year prison sentences, twelve were acquitted. The men were accused of working in a Zionist underground organization which, said Iraq, had been engaged in sabotage and espionage on behalf of Israel. Those convicted were found guilty of taking part in a series of bombings which killed several persons. Iraq said the underground group had cached large stocks of arms and explosives in Jewish homes and a synagogue in Baghdad...
...royalties from $60 million to $100 million. Other oil companies, particularly Anglo-Iranian, privately deplored such generosity, but belatedly offered to do likewise. American-British-owned Kuwait Oil Co. had to give Kuwait's Sheik an even better split, and American-British-Dutch-French-owned Iraq Petroleum topped that by agreeing to bring Iraqis into the board of directors...
...there were hopeful signs. Three separate, self-appointed mediators-Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the U.S.-:kept trying to mediate the Britain-Egypt quarrel. Best bet to date was a tentative suggestion from Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to his U.S. opposite number, Dean Acheson: Britain might provisionally recognize. Egypt's Farouk as King of the disputed Sudan in return for continued British "protection" of the Suez and full Egyptian participation in the Middle East command...
...added 42 pages to my passport's normal 48 pages. Security functionaries in this part of the world love my passport. They play it like an accordion. I've made eight trips to Iran, seven to Egypt, six to Syria, three each to Turkey and Iraq, two each to Greece and Bahrein, one each to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... My wife wistfully wishes she'd married a traveling salesman...
...suicidal quality of this fanaticism can be seen in the two men closest to Mossadegh in politics. Ayatulla Kashani is a zealot of Islam who has spent his life fighting the infidel British in Iraq and Iran. He controls the Teheran mobs (except those controlled by the Communists), and his terrorist organization assassinated Razmara. Hussein Makki controls the oil-rich province of Khuzistan, in which the Abadan refinery lies. When the British got out, Mossadegh put Makki in charge of the oil installations. Makki's view on oil: close up the wells, pull down the refinery and forget about...