Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East News Agency gleefully described the assassination of Crown Prince Abdul Illah: "The people dragged Abdul Illah's body into the street like that of a dog and tore it limb from limb." Then the mobs burned the body. It was Abdul Illah who ruled Iraq as regent until Feisal became King...
...restless Middle East, death alone is the one swift, sure way to bring change. Disaster struck there this week in classic fashion: an army coup, mobs in the streets, hired assassins, overthrow of the legitimate government. Death and revolution struck on a Monday morning in Iraq. Down went the pro-Western government of Nuri asSaid, and of his young British-educated monarch, King Feisal. The military junta that seized control of Baghdad proclaimed Iraq now a republic, and got off an exultant message of comradeship to Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...first word crackled from the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad. The word: an army junta had overthrown the government and set up a three-man "sovereignty council" led by a little-known army general, Abdel Karim Kassem. From the Baghdad Radio, rechristened "Free Iraq Radio," and Nasser's announcers in Egypt and Syria, came sketchy details, whose authenticity had to be measured against the plotters' desire to stir further panic. Broadcasts said that the junta had seized the capital city before dawn, that wispy Crown Prince Abdul Illah, uncle of the young King, had been assassinated...
Waiting in Vain. The revolt had been timed for the early morning departure of King Feisal, the Crown Prince, and Nuri asSaid for Istanbul, to attend an emergency session of the Baghdad Pact-concerned not about Iraq, but revolt-torn Lebanon...
...play-but the Iraqi guests never arrived. In alarm, Turkish President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes took off for their capital at Ankara to consider their next move. Another pact partner, Iran, closed its border and alerted its army. But these were but feeble protective responses. Without Iraq the Baghdad Pact would be meaningless...