Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 700 years in the dark ages, the ancient land where agriculture dawned and civilization first lit the planet is stirring again. Sudden wealth has been thrust upon the Kingdom of Iraq, carved just 35 years ago out of the Ottoman Empire's holdings in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates-the land once known as Mesopotamia. The oil that calked the walls of Babylon and may have fired the furnace through which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked unscathed now bubbles through huge pipelines to the Mediterranean. Its flow is so fabulous that it makes Iraq...
Britain sent its top soldier, General Sir Gerald Templer, to Jordan with a tempting proposition: if Jordan would join the Baghdad pact, with Turkey. Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. Britain would boost its aid program (currently $24 million a year), replace the present Anglo-Jordanian treaty with a new one more favorable to Jordan, and increase the size and armored strength of Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion, whose 20,000 men are the best Arab troops in the Middle East...
Britain, fed up with trying to please or appease Egypt, decided that proven friends are best, and made a big fuss over its new Baghdad pact (METO) partners, particularly its old partner-in-oil Iraq. By proving that it pays, militarily and economically, to be friends, the British hope to recruit as another METO prospect, Jordan, whose national budget and Arab Legion they underwrite at the rate of $24 million a year. The British are determined to show Egypt's Nasser that flirting with Communists is not the way to get arms or anything else from the West. The British...
Help one Arab power Iraq and two other Arab nations bristle. Saudi Arabia's ruling Saudi family mortally hates and fears Iraq's Hashemite rulers and intrigues expensively with the riches provided by U.S. oil royalties to prevent the Hashemite Arabs (Iraq, Jordan) from ever getting together. And Egypt jealously regards Iraq as its chief rival for Arab leadership...
...Zagros line would effectively protect the Iraq oilfields, and. beyond them, Saudi Arabia and the Suez Canal. It would even protect the Iran oilfields and refineries around Abadan...