Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iraqi artillery, these reports said, is constantly shelling the base in an effort to destroy its power house, which provides electricity for the wire barricades...
LONDON--The "war of oil" spread over larger areas of Iraq today after a breakdown of neutral peace feelers when British bombers blasted destructively at Iraqi military positions and weakened the five-day-old siege of Habbaniya air base...
Axis reports said that 3,000 British troops within the besieged base on the Euphrates, including Australians, were completely encircled but that the Iraqi forces were unable to storm Habbaniya because it is surrounded by barricades of high tension wires...
When Super-Nationalist Seyid Rashid El-Gailani this month took the Iraqi Premiership by coup d'état (TIME, April 21), Britain's great fear was that the new Government would let Axis fifth columnists tamper with the Mosul-Haifa pipeline, through which flows part of Britain's oil. If El-Gailani had had any such ideas, the British moved too fast for him. Into Basra harbor last week unexpectedly steamed a British transport and unloaded British Imperial troops, probably from East Africa...
...British-Iraqi Treaty such an action is perfectly permissible "in the event of the imminent threat of war," and Premier El-Gailani, who had officially come out for the treaty (perhaps without thinking the British could spare the troops), knew it. Best move he could think of was to send a pro-British staff officer hastily to welcome the British commander...